In August 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a crushing victory over the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), thus bringing to an end over fifty years of

The Evolution of Japan's Party System analyses the transition by examining both party politics and public policy. This volume discusess how older parties such a

This book explains why no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a sustained challenger in Japan.

When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009, Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, characterized

This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for twenty years, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, th