The Post-War Roots of Japanese Political Malaise by Dagfinn Gatu

Author:Dagfinn Gatu [Gatu, Dagfinn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ethnic Studies, Social Science, Political Parties, Political Science, Political Process, Regional Studies, General
ISBN: 9781317526483
Google: qkreCQAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 26270874
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-12T12:42:00+00:00

Notes

1 On the above (unless otherwise indicated): Allinson 2004: 46–48, 50,75; Dower 1986: 297–299; Dower 1999: 45, 48; Hane 2001: 348, 408; McClain 2002: 530–531; Moore 1983: 76, 86–90; Uchino 1978: 13–18, 27–28, 39.

2 Yanaga 1968: 141–151. In summary:

The power of life or death over the government has been exercised by organized business overtly and dramatically at times, but quietly on the whole, unnoticed by the casual observer. No candidate for the premiership can be successful without the tacit, if not expressed, approval of the business community. Nor can a Prime Minister long continue in his post after he has lost the support of organized business.

(Ibid.: 141)

On how the government’s legislative programmes in these decades were influenced by business proposals and by the inclusion of its representatives in the cabinet see pp. 70–73. Prime Minister Ikeda thus described the power relationship in 1961: ‘the government is the captain and the zaikai the compass of the ship’ (ibid.: 34).

3 Despite initially asserting that the LDP ever since 1955 ‘completely depended on the bureaucracy’ for policy formulation and that the opposition parties’ ‘ability to allocate personnel and funds to collect and analyse facts for policy elaboration in various fields has compared extremely unfavourably to the LDP-government’, the authors of the (56-page) article completely fail to pursue the implications of this issue. Like so many others, they only note it in passing (see Satake and Ōhashi 2004: 289–290).

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