Critical Review of the Abe Administration - Politics of Conservatism and Realism

The second Abe administration, which lasted for seven years and eight months, turned out to be the longest administration in Japan's constitutional history. What factors contributed to its remarkable longevity? What accomplishments and enduring legacies did this administration achieve during its tenure?

List of contents

Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
YOICHI FUNABASHI
Foreword
YOICHI FUNABASHI
Introduction: What made Abe's long and stable administration possible?
KOJI NAKAKITA
Chapter 1. Abenomics: Putting the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Japan under the prime minister's control
KOJI NAKAKITA
Chapter 2. Elections and public relations campaigns: Winning over the younger generation in a "silent revolution"
SHIRO SAKAIYA
Chapter 3. The Prime Minister's Office in charge: The conditions that enabled strong and stable leadership
KOJI NAKAKITA
Chapter 4. Foreign and security policy: The pursuit of strategy
KEN JIMBO
Chapter 5. Politics on TPP and CPTPP: Turning Japan into one of the world's major free trade powers
TAKASHI TERADA
Chapter 6. History issues: A consistently realist approach
NAOKO KUMAGAI
Chapter 7. Governance of the ruling parties: The pervasive control of the prime minister
HARUKATA TAKENAKA
Chapter 8. Skillful agenda-setting for women's policy
YUKI TSUJI
Chapter 9. Constitutional revision-Why it failed
KENNETH MORI MCELWAIN
List of interviewees
List of Ministers and key government officials
List of key LDP officials
Chronology
Index

About the author

Yoichi Funabashi is Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Chairman of the Global Council at the International House of Japan.
Koji Nakakita is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Law, Chuo University, Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Yoichi Nakakita Funabashi
• Assisted by: Funabashi Yoichi (Editor), Koji Nakakita (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032548883
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254888-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political leaders & leadership, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Political leaders and leadership