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Shadow shoguns : the rise and fall of Japan's postwar political machine / Jacob M. Schlesinger.
- Title
- Shadow shoguns : the rise and fall of Japan's postwar political machine / Jacob M. Schlesinger.
- Author
- Schlesinger, Jacob M.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
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Details
- Description
- 366 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for 20 years, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, the period during which Japan became the world's second-largest economy.
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-346) and index.
- Contents
- Kakuei Tanaka : man of the people, man of means, 1918-1976: from penury to parliament -- Snow country -- Kaku-san versus the elite -- Building a new Japan -- The politician as entrepreneur -- Arrested -- "the shadow shogun of Mejiro" : building a national machine, 1976-1985 : back to the snow country -- Bags of money -- "Politics is power, power is numbers" -- The loyal opposition -- General hospital -- The public works state -- Court justice, political logic -- The second generation : the "bubble politics" of Shin Kanemaru, Noboru Takeshita, and Ichiro Ozawa, 1985-1992 : the odd couple -- "Ichiro ... My lost son" -- The coup -- The age of languor -- The don -- "One big sale" -- The machine collapses, 1992-1996 : cracks in the foundation -- Ozawa and his discontents -- The boss turned reformer.
- ISBN
- 0804734577 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99017347^
- OCLC
- 40698631
- SCSB-13905774
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- Harvard Library