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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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GO256: Conflict in East Asia
Professor Walter HatchColby 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 reformSM 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