With the advent of the second Abe administration, the question of ‘who leads’ in Japan has become much easier to answer - the Prime Minister and his executive office, backed by a substantial policy su
Written by the world’s leading expert in the field, this book examines the evolution of Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period, focusing particularly from the 1970s onwards when both dome
"Ozawa Ichirao was the axis on which Japanese politics turned for more than two decades. He helped to reshape the electoral system, political funding rules, the evolution of the party system, the natu
This edited volume identifies the main political and economic forces that have helped to shape Japanese trade policy in the post-war period. It offers a new integrative framework for analysing these f