GO256: Conflict in East Asia Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Lectures 6 and 7
Japan
Historical Overview
Tokugawa (Edo) Period Baku-han system Confucian order Sakoku
Meiji Restoration Western ideas Industrialization Constitution
Japanese Imperialism China Russia Beheading a spy, 1905
Taisho Democracy Political parties Corruption Hara Kei
Militarism Disenchantment Disorder Dispatch
The Great Pacific War
Total Defeat Tokyo, March 1945
Occupation Demilitarization Democratization
Reverse Course
Time of Conflict: AMPO Asanuma Inejiro’s assassination, 1960
Time of Conflict: Labor The Flag of Sanbetsu
The 1955 System Left and right socialists reconcile Two conservative parties merge
LDP: One-Party Dominance
Developmentalism Government-business cooperation Business-business cooperation Labor-management cooperation Ikeda Hayato
Costs of Developmentalism
Expanding the Base
Retail Politics Tanaka Kakuei
LDP Clientelism Koenkai Factions Zoku
Money Politics Recruit Sagawa Kyubin
Why clientelism (and money politics)? Culture: “group-ism” Institutionalism: history Rational choice: electoral rules
The Old Rules SNTV MMDs
The Old Party Line Communists LDP Socialists Democratic Socialists Komeito
Chaos in the 90s Rise of new parties Collapse of LDP rule Electoral reform SM Plurality (300 in HR and 144 HC) PR (180 in HR and 98 in HC) LDP returns to power
2000 HR Election LDP: 233 Democratic Party: 127 Komeito: 31 Others: 89
2003 HR Election LDP: 237 DPJ: 177 Komeito: 34 Others: 32
“Lionheart”
“Henjin”
2005 HR Election LDP: 292 DPJ: 113 Komeito: 31 Others: 44
Abe Shinzo
Pro-Abe Interests Nippon Keidanren Nationalists
Anti-Abe Interests Rengo Nokyo Feminists Peace Activists