The Recent Aims and Political Development of Japan
Author : Rikitarō Fujisawa
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Japan
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Author : Rikitarō Fujisawa
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Japan
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Author : Frances Rosenbluth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400835097
With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than at any time in its history. Japan Transformed explores the historical, political, and economic forces that led to the country's recent evolution, and looks at the consequences for Japan's citizens and global neighbors. The book examines Japanese history, illustrating the country's multiple transformations over the centuries, and then focuses on the critical and inexorable advance of economic globalization. It describes how global economic integration and urbanization destabilized Japan's postwar policy coalition, undercut the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's ability to buy votes, and paved the way for new electoral rules that emphasized competing visions of the public good. In contrast to the previous system that pitted candidates from the same party against each other, the new rules tether policymaking to the vast swath of voters in the middle of the political spectrum. Regardless of ruling party, Japan's politics, economics, and foreign policy are on a neoliberal path. Japan Transformed combines broad context and comparative analysis to provide an accurate understanding of Japan's past, present, and future.
Author : Herbert Henry Gowen
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Japan
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Page : 788 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Political science
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Page : 812 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1924
Category :
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Author : George Park Fisher
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Page : 886 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American literature
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Author : American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1925
Category : East Asia
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Author : Richard H. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824818197
Scholars often use the term "structural corruption" when discussing modern Japan's political system--a system that forces politicians to exchange favors with businessmen in return for funds to finance their political careers. Scholars argue that the origins of corruption can be found in the "iron triangles" formed by politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen during the postwar era or during the Pacific War years. In this examination of malfeasance in Japanese public office, Richard Mitchell systematically surveys political bribery in Japan's historical and cultural contexts from antiquity to the early 1900s. Mitchell's narrative serially considers scandals involving courtiers in the ancient imperial government, corruption among the shogun's samurai officials, and political bribery among bureaucrats and party politicians in the mid-nineteenth century. Mitchell concludes that bribery was as ubiquitous in premodern Japan as it has been in recent times. Focusing on the period since 1868, Mitchell discusses in fascinating detail changes in political bribery in the wake of suffrage expansion, estimates of the enormous amount of campaign money needed to win a Diet seat in both the prewar and postwar periods, and the low conviction rate of suspected takers of bribes. Here is a highly readable and reliable survey of an important yet largely neglected topic in English-language studies of Japanese political history.
Author : Takenobu Yoshitarō
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Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Japan
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Includes the sections, "who's who in japan", "business directory", etc.
Author : George Nye Steiger
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 1926
Category : East Asia
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