Shadow Shoguns The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine

Name: Shadow Shoguns The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine
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ISBN: 9780804734578

ISBN-10: 0804734577

ISBN-13: 9780804734578

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jacob M. Schlesinger

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This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for 20 years, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, the period during which Japan became the world's second-largest economy.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



A Note to Readers


Introduction



Kakuei Tanaka: Man of the People, Man of Means, 1918-1976



From Penury to Parliament



Snow Country



Kaku-san Versus the Elite



Building a New Japan



The Politician as Entrepreneur



Arrested



The "Shadow Shogun of Mejiro": Building a National Machine, 1976-1985



Back to the Snow Country



Bags of Money



"Politics Is Power, Power Is Numbers"



The Loyal Opposition



General Hospital



The Public Works State



Court Justice, Political Logic



The Second Generation: The "Bubble Politics" of Shin Kanemaru, Noboru Takeshita, And Ichiro Ozawa, 1985-1992



The Odd Couple



"Ichiro ... My Lost Son"



The Coup



The Age of Languor



The Don



"One Big Safe"



The Machine Collapses, 1992-1996



Cracks in the Foundation



Ozawa and His Discontents



The Boss Turned Reformer


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index