Dynamic and Immobilist Aspects of Japanese Politics

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ID20042056
AuthorsJ A A Stockwin (corresponding author)
Year1988
Pages1-21
Publication date1988-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueDynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-10297-6_1
OpenAlexW2496214380
ISBN9781349102976
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

In November 1987 Nakasone Yasuhiro was replaced as prime minister of Japan by Takeshita Noboru, a politician of the same party that had ruled without interruption since 1955, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Nakasone had been widely regarded abroad as a thrusting dynamic leader determined to exercise personal power in order to 'settle accounts with the postwar period'. By contrast Takeshita — little known outside Japan hitherto — comes over as a behind-the-scenes politician who hesitates to move politically until he has constructed a broad consensus of opinion behind him. Does this mean, then, that Japan has once again entered a period of immobilist politics after five years of unusually dynamic leadership? Why did an established leader who seemed to have given the government and politics of Japan a much more modern image than it had previously enjoyed have to yield office to someone whose approach appeared traditional and unexciting?KeywordsInterest GroupPolitical SystemLiberal Democratic PartyOpposition PartiPower EliteThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Sociology · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy

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