This book argues that Japanese politicians pay more attention to security issues nowadays because of the electoral reform.

Japan is the third-largest economy in the world and a key ally of the United States. Yet the determinants of Japanese security policy are not well understood. T

Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons

This work collects decades of the best published scholarship in English on the unequivocally most successful political party in Japanese history: the Liberal De

Japan's new politics challenge some basic assumptions about U.S.-Japan alliance management. CFR Senior Fellow Sheila A. Smith explores this new era of alternati