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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.
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GO256: Conflict in East Asia Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Lectures 6 and 7
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
Total Defeat Tokyo, March 1945
Occupation • Demilitarization • Democratization
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
Developmentalism • Government-business cooperation • Business-business cooperation • Labor-management cooperation Ikeda Hayato
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
2005 HR Election • LDP: 292 • DPJ: 113 • Komeito: 31 • Others: 44
Pro-Abe Interests • Nippon Keidanren • Nationalists
Anti-Abe Interests • Rengo • Nokyo • Feminists • Peace Activists