02744nam 2200577 450 991046325890332120200520144314.00-7391-7390-1(CKB)2670000000426888(EBL)1392786(OCoLC)858763413(SSID)ssj0001000283(PQKBManifestationID)12371189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000283(PQKBWorkID)10950694(PQKB)10083160(MiAaPQ)EBC1392786(Au-PeEL)EBL1392786(CaPaEBR)ebr10764392(EXLCZ)99267000000042688820130606d2013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJapan's backroom politics factions in a multiparty age /Watanabe Tsuneo ; translated with commentary by Robert D. EldridgeLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2013.1 online resource (293 p.)New studies of modern JapanTranslation of: Habatsu to tatōka jidai.Includes index.0-7391-8635-3 0-7391-7389-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the defeated one : the decline of party politicians -- The backroom : testimonies of party leadership elections -- Popularity : leadership and the people -- Money : the basis for politics -- Factions, part 1 : steps to an administration -- Factions, part 2 : background of leaders -- Multiparty age : undercurrents of the 1967 elections -- The myth of a two-party system : recommendations for a multiparty system -- The end of backroom politics : administrations in a multiparty age.Written by the controversial owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun when he was Japan's leading political reporter, Japan's Backroom Politics is the translation of a classic study of the rough and tumble of Japanese politics and Liberal Democratic Party factions in the first two decades of postwar Japan. In addition to discussing the reasons for the resiliency of factions, he discusses in great detail the history of and personalities within the near-dozen factions of the LDP.Political partiesJapanHistory20th centuryJapanPolitics and government1945-1989Electronic books.Political partiesHistory324.252009/045Watanabe Tsuneo1926-859409Eldridge Robert D859410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463258903321Japan's backroom politics1917958UNINA