Abstract: As an actor, the state is composed of dominant “organizational body” and recessive “civilizational body”. During the Meiji period in Japan, the “becoming civilized” policy was one of the three basic national policies of Meiji Restoration, which is of great significance for Japans transforming toward the modern society. It has completely changed Japanese peoples consciousness and constructed the modern national civilization body, together with the “rich country, powerful army” and “industry breeding and business initiating” policies. Meiji Restoration and its “becoming civilized” policy have been studied extensively by many scholars from the perspective of history. This paper attempts to explore the “becoming civilized” policy and discuss the characteristics of constructing the civilizational body from psychoculturology, that is, the absolute superiority of “shinkoku” and “koukoku”, the sequence between countries, the illusion of feudal military capitalist country.

Key words: “becoming civilized” policy, , Meiji Japan, civilizational state, psychoculturology