The Japanese conservative camp's bridging method for China–Japan relations under the separation of politics and the economic policy: investigation of the case of the Kenzo Matsumura Group, 1959–1972

Democratic Party ◽

Diplomatic Relations ◽

Cultural Relations ◽

National Interests ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

China And Japan

Abstract From the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco to the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, Japan has always adopted a political and economic separation policy that maintains diplomacy with Taiwan and economic and cultural relations with China. Within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to break the existing deadlock, Kenzo Matsumura of the Japanese House of Representatives and others formed a foreign policy group in 1959. This group spoke highly of China's importance to Japan's development on the grounds of national interests rather than ideology and national sentiments, played a bridging role in the political communication between China and Japan, and created a precedent for the nontraditional improvement of international relations in Japan.

Measuring Voters’ Multidimensional Policy Preferences with Conjoint Analysis: Application to Japan’s 2014 Election

Political Analysis ◽

10.1017/pan.2018.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 190-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Yusaku Horiuchi ◽

Daniel M. Smith ◽

Teppei Yamamoto

Keyword(s):

Democratic Party ◽

Policy Preferences ◽

Voter Preferences ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Party Manifestos ◽

Analysis Application ◽

The Media ◽

Election Results

Representative democracy entails the aggregation of multiple policy issues by parties into competing bundles of policies, or “manifestos,” which are then evaluated holistically by voters in elections. This aggregation process obscures the multidimensional policy preferences underlying a voter’s single choice of party or candidate. We address this problem through a conjoint experiment based on the actual party manifestos in Japan’s 2014 House of Representatives election. By juxtaposing sets of issue positions as hypothetical manifestos and asking respondents to choose one, our study identifies the effects of specific positions on the overall assessment of manifestos, heterogeneity in preferences among subgroups of respondents, and the popularity ranking of manifestos. Our analysis uncovers important discrepancies between voter preferences and the portrayal of the election results by politicians and the media as providing a policy mandate to the Liberal Democratic Party, underscoring the potential danger of inferring public opinion from election outcomes alone.

Gender and Voting Preferences in Japanese Lower House Elections

Japanese Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s1468109903001038 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-39

Author(s):

GILL STEEL

Keyword(s):

Gender Gap ◽

Democratic Party ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Lower House ◽

Standards Of Living ◽

Voter Choice ◽

Gender Based ◽

Using Data

This paper analyzes voter choice in selected House of Representatives elections during the past 30 years. I estimate multinomial probit models using data from the Akarui Senkyo Suishin Kyokai (Society for the Promotion of Clean Elections) surveys and use qualitative data gathered in focus groups. I argue that no gender gap exists in the votes garnered by the main parties because, first, influential people are not simply able to ‘deliver’ votes from their networks — most accounts of voter choice fail to discuss gender, an oversight considering that most networks are gender-based — and, second, ‘women's issues’ have no special relevance to women in their vote choice. Instead, women and men vote for the Liberal Democratic Party because they associate the Party with stability and increased standards of living, including substantial social provisions.

Japanese Party Politics at a Crossroads?

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s002191181500008x ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 74 (2) ◽

pp. 443-447

Author(s):

Benjamin Nyblade

Keyword(s):

Democratic Party ◽

Party Politics ◽

First Century ◽

Japanese Politics ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Members Of Parliament ◽

Electoral Defeat ◽

Electoral Reforms

In 2009, the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan, which had successfully formed governments either alone or as the largest partner in a coalition government for all but a single year since 1955, suffered a devastating electoral defeat when the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won nearly two-thirds of the seats available in the House of Representatives. The landslide DPJ victory was seen by many commentators and academics as the culmination of a decade-long trend toward two-party politics, driven in large part by party and voter adaptation to the electoral reforms of the 1990s, which introduced single-member districts as the means for electing a majority of members of parliament. The three books reviewed in this essay were written primarily in the two years following the 2009 DPJ victory, and each attempts, in quite distinct ways, to update our accounts of electoral and party politics and policymaking in Japan to account for the changes in Japanese politics in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

POLITICAL CHANGING FOR PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN

International Journal of Law Reconstruction ◽

10.26532/ijlr.v5i1.15540 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Osamu Ryoichi

Keyword(s):

Democratic Party ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Chief Executive ◽

Armed Forces ◽

The Other ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

The Government ◽

Commander In Chief

The prime minister of Japan (日本国内閣総理大臣, Nihon-koku naikaku sōridaijin, or shushō (首相)) (informally referred to as the PMOJ) is head of the government of Japan, the chief executive of the National Cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Japan; he is appointed by the emperor of Japan after being designated by the National Diet and must enjoy the confidence of the House of Representatives to remain in office. He is the head of the Cabinet and appoints and dismisses the other ministers of state. The literal translation of the Japanese name for the office is Minister for the Comprehensive Administration of (or the Presidency over) the Cabinet. The current prime minister of Japan is Yoshihide Suga. On 14 September 2020, he was elected to the presidency of the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). After being confirmed in the Diet, he received an invitation from Emperor Naruhito to form a government as the new prime minister, and took office on 16 September 2020. Japan's parliament has elected Yoshihide Suga as the country's new prime minister, following the surprise resignation of Shinzo Abe. After winning the leadership of the governing party earlier this week, Wednesday's vote confirms the former chief cabinet secretary's new position. It happened because the needed of political interest for Japan.

Public Opinion and Its Impacts on the 2000 HR election

Japanese Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s1468109900002103 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 341-344 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ikuo Kabashima

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Democratic Party ◽

Short Note ◽

The Public ◽

Liberal Democratic

This short note analyzes how the public in Japan evaluates the performance of the cabinet and the two major parties, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DP), and their impacts on the 2000 House of Representatives election held on 25 June.

A Step Toward One-Party Predominance: Japan’s General Election of 20 October 1996

Government and Opposition ◽

10.1111/j.1477-7053.1997.tb01209.x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 48-64

Author(s):

Takashi Inoguchi

Keyword(s):

Democratic Party ◽

General Election ◽

Social Democratic Party ◽

Japanese Politics ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Minority Government ◽

The Social ◽

New Frontier

THE GENERAL ELECTION IN JAPAN OF OCTOBER 1996 brought back the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a position of predominance, if not preponderance, in the House of Representatives. Out of 500 seats, the LDP acquired 239, while the second largest New Frontier Party (FNP) won 156, the newly-formed Democratic Party 52, the Communist Party 26, the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ) 15, and the Sakigake New Party two seats. Prior to the general election, the LDP, the SDPJ and the Sakigake had cooperated in a coalition government with 211, 30 and 9 seats, respectively. After the election, the LDP formed a minority government without making a formal coalition arrangement with the much enfeebled SDPJ and Sakigake. Why was the LDP able to make this sort of comeback? Why have ‘reformist parties’, starting with the New Japan Party, the Renewal Party, the New Frontier Party and most recently the Democratic Party, experienced such a brief period of increased power before their fall (or stagnation)? These are the questions that this article addresses in describing and explaining Japanese politics today.

Hot political autumn in Japan

Problemy Dalnego Vostoka ◽

10.31857/s013128120017350-6 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 7

Author(s):

Aleksey Streltsov

Keyword(s):

Political Development ◽

Democratic Party ◽

Party Leadership ◽

Political Ideas ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Lower House ◽

Low Levels ◽

Ruling Party

The autumn of 2021 turned out to be hot for Japan’s political sphere. Elections to the House of Representatives were to be held and the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party was to be elected. The situation was complicated by a bad situation with the pandemic, accompanied by a drop in the ratings of the ruling party, as well as the low popularity of the head of the Cabinet, Y. Suga, which has reached critically low levels. To rectify the situation, the LDP had to take extraordinary measures — elect a new leader of Japan, change the party leadership, form a new cabinet of ministers and hold early elections to the lower house on October 31 with new political ideas and new faces in the party leadership. In this paper the author tried to characterize the main milestones of this tense political season in Japan, to assess the steps taken by the ruling party and to summarize the elections, which marked the beginning of a new stage of Japan's political development. The author comes to the conclusion that the reason for the relatively successful performance of the ruling party in the elections was the increased media attention to the election of the LDP president, which allowed it to intercept the agenda from the opposition and win over a significant percentage of swing votes. The election manifests put forward by the new LDP leader’s found support among many voters, which was also helpful for the LDP success. In addition, the traditional tactics of the opposition based on the criticism of the misses of the ruling party were practically ineffective in the elections, while a positive program was not presented at all.

Testing the Causal Mechanisms in Additional Cases

10.1093/oso/9780198807872.003.0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Paul D. Kenny

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Latin America ◽

Case Studies ◽

Democratic Party ◽

Party System ◽

System Stability ◽

Relative Autonomy ◽

Causal Mechanisms ◽

Liberal Democratic

Case studies of Indonesia and Japan illustrate that party-system stability in patronage democracies is deeply affected by the relative autonomy of political brokers. Over the course of a decade, a series of decentralizing reforms in Indonesia weakened patronage-based parties hold on power, with the 2014 election ultimately being a contest between two rival populists: Joko Widodo and Subianto Prabowo. Although Japan was a patronage democracy throughout the twentieth century, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) remained robust to outsider appeals even in the context of economic and corruption crises. However, reforms in the 1990s weakened the hold of central factional leaders over individual members of the LDP and their patronage machines. This was instrumental to populist Junichiro Koizumi’s winning of the presidency of the LDP and ultimately the prime ministership of Japan. This chapter also reexamines canonical cases of populism in Latin America.

FIVE The Creation of the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955

Japan's Postwar Party Politics ◽

10.1515/9780691221618-008 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 68-90

Keyword(s):

Democratic Party ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

The Creation

Japan's Post-Fukushima Energy Politics

East Asian Policy ◽

10.1142/s1793930515000239 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 07 (02) ◽

pp. 109-116

Author(s):

Tai Wei LIM

Keyword(s):

Democratic Party ◽

Nuclear Reactor ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Nuclear Reactors ◽

The Political ◽

Political Arena ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Energy Politics ◽

Gubernatorial Election

A 2011 earthquake damaged the Fukushima nuclear reactor and provided a galvanising point for anti-nuclear resistance groups in Japan. Their public cause slowly faded from the political arena after the Democratic Party of Japan fell out of power and anti-nuclear politicians lost the 2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election. The current Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister Abe holds a pro-nuclear position and urges the reactivation of Japan's nuclear reactors after all safeguards have been satisfied.