20世纪80年代以后日本泡沫经济引发的种种社会现象,特别是政治文化方面的变化,促进了日本学界对当代日本社会的新一轮探究。从“日本孩童资本主义”的定性到“日本异质论”,从对“日本奇迹”的质疑到对“日本模式”的否定,日本国家的现实及其走向似乎又成了一个大大的问号。实际上,学界所说的日本政治保守化倾向是由其国家发展战略的外向性和大众意识的内向性特点所构成的。泡沫经济的崩溃,不但加速了日本社会的结构疲劳,更扩大了社会思潮的混沌 The various social phenomena triggered by the Japanese bubble economy since the 1980s, especially the political and cultural changes, have promoted the Japanese academics’ new round of inquiry into contemporary Japanese society. From the characterization of “Japanese child capitalism” to “Japan’s heterogeneity”, from the questioning of “Japan’s miracle” to the denial of “Japanese model,” Japan’s reality and its trend seem to have become a big question mark. In fact, what scholars call the conservative tendency of Japanese politics is constituted by the inward-looking nature of its national development strategy and its public consciousness. The collapse of the bubble economy not only accelerated the structural fatigue in Japanese society but also expanded the chaos in social thought