This week: Miyazaki’s time as a politics reporter, the end of his reporting career, and his return to the family…
On the final episode of the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the LDP completely fails to meet the challenge of…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: how did Ikeda Hayato and the LDP build a system that…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the Occupation comes to an end, but what happens next? This…
We’re wrapping up our look at the Hatoyama political dynasty with some time on Hatoyama Iichiro (arguably Japan’s most reluctant politican) and his two sons Kunio and Yukio. Plus some thoughts on the legacy of the Hatoyama family and on dynastic electoral politics more generally.
Hatoyama Ichiro’s revenge tour culminates in finally reaching the top spot as PM and in the formation of the LDP. What does the torturous road it took to get there tell us about the man, and about the politics of his time?
This week, a current events episode on the leadup and immediate aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.…
This week, we’re kicking off a short series on the transformations of 1960s Japan with a look at the unassuming…
How did it all go so very wrong? Sources Funabayashi, Yoichi, and Koichi Nakano, eds. The Democratic Party of Japan…
In just three years, Ozawa Ichiro managed to guide the DPJ from defeat to one of the most smashing victories…