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

This study advances an alternative set of interpretations based on a microanalytic approach that highlights the incentive and bargaining power of individual pol

Explains how the persistence of party institutions (factions, PARC, koenkai) and the transformed role of party leadership in Japan contributed both to the LDP's

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

The years in Japan between June 1924, when a coalition cabinet of three political parties was established, and December 1941, when the country declared war on t