Powerful But Not Popular: The Puzzling Case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party

Japanese party politics are puzzling. After the Liberal and Democratic Parties merged to form the Li

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Consequences of the Reverse Course Policy in Japan – Part 2

As noted in part one of this series, the reverse course in 1948 led to various consequences, chief o

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Consequences of the Reverse Course Policy in Japan – Part 1

At the beginning of the post-war era in 1945, and prior to the Reverse Course, Japan was set on a pa

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