This project examined the origins of Japanese conservatism. It focused on the involvement of Nakasone Yasuhiro, Hatoyama Ichiro, and Kishi Nobusuke in the Moral Re-Armament movement (MRA). It shed new light on the transwar and transnational links that gave rise to the conservative politics of these three politicians. The research urges us to revise the notion that postwar conservatism was the product of the Japanese alliance with the US, pointing to the complex networks that linked Japan to such countries as the Philippines, South Korea, West Germany and Switzerland.