1. GO256: Conflict in East Asia Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Lectures 6 and 7

2. Japan

3. Historical Overview

4. Tokugawa (Edo) Period Baku-han system Confucian order Sakoku

5. Meiji Restoration Western ideas Industrialization Constitution

6. Japanese Imperialism China Russia Beheading a spy, 1905

7. Taisho Democracy Political parties Corruption Hara Kei

8. Militarism Disenchantment Disorder Dispatch

9. The Great Pacific War

10. Total Defeat Tokyo, March 1945

11. Occupation Demilitarization Democratization

12. Reverse Course

13. Time of Conflict: AMPO Asanuma Inejiro’s assassination, 1960

14. Time of Conflict: Labor The Flag of Sanbetsu

15. The 1955 System Left and right socialists reconcile Two conservative parties merge

16. LDP: One-Party Dominance

17. Developmentalism Government-business cooperation Business-business cooperation Labor-management cooperation Ikeda Hayato

18. Costs of Developmentalism

19. Expanding the Base

20. Retail Politics Tanaka Kakuei

21. LDP Clientelism Koenkai Factions Zoku

22. Money Politics Recruit Sagawa Kyubin

23. Why clientelism (and money politics)? Culture: “group-ism” Institutionalism: history Rational choice: electoral rules

24. The Old Rules SNTV MMDs

25. The Old Party Line Communists LDP Socialists Democratic Socialists Komeito

26. 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

27. 2000 HR Election LDP: 233 Democratic Party: 127 Komeito: 31 Others: 89

28. 2003 HR Election LDP: 237 DPJ: 177 Komeito: 34 Others: 32

29. “Lionheart”

30. “Henjin”

31. 2005 HR Election LDP: 292 DPJ: 113 Komeito: 31 Others: 44

32. Abe Shinzo

33. Pro-Abe Interests Nippon Keidanren Nationalists

34. Anti-Abe Interests Rengo Nokyo Feminists Peace Activists