Japan''s Backroom Politics - Factions in a Multiparty Age

Written by the controversial owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun when he was Japan's leading political reporter, Japan's Backroom Politics is the translation of a classic study of the rough and tumble of Japanese politics and Liberal Democratic Party factions in the first two decades of postwar Japan.

List of contents

Translator's Preface
Introduction: The Defeated One: The Decline of Party Politicians
Chapter 1: The Backroom: Testimonies of Party Leadership Elections
Chapter 2: Popularity: Leadership and the People
Chapter 3: Money: The Basis for Politics
Chapter 4: Factions, Part 1: Steps to an Administration
Chapter 5: Factions, Part 2: Background of Leaders
Chapter 6: Multiparty Age: Undercurrents of the 1967 Elections
Chapter 7: The Myth of a Two-Party System: Recommendations for a Multiparty System
Chapter 8: The End of Backroom Politics: Administrations in a Multiparty Age
Afterword

About the author

Robert D. Eldridge is a former tenured associate professor of Japanese political and diplomatic history at the School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, and the author, editor, or translator of nearly 20 books, including Secret Talks between Tokyo and Washington: The Memoirs of Miyazawa Kiichi, 1949-1954, also from Lexington Books. A 23-year resident of Japan, Eldridge is currently working on a book about the postwar prime ministers of Japan while serving as the political adviser to the United States Marine Corps in Okinawa.

Summary

Written by the controversial owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun when he was Japan’s leading political reporter, Japan’s Backroom Politics is the translation of a classic study of the rough and tumble of Japanese politics and Liberal Democratic Party factions in the first two decades of postwar Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Watanabe Tsuneo
• Assisted by: Robert D. Eldridge (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780739186350
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8635-0
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan; New Studies of Modern Japan; New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, Regional Studies, Asian History