The prime ministers of postwar Japan, 1945-1995 : their lives and times /

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Group Author: Watanabe, Akio, 1932- (Editor); Eldridge, Robert D. (Translator)
Published: Lexington Books,
Publisher Address: Lanham, Maryland :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Japanese
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Item Description: Translated from the Japanese.
Includes index.
Carrier Form: xviii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781498510011
1498510019
Index Number: DS890
CLC: K833.137
Call Number: K833.137/S476
Contents: Preface to the English edition -- Preface to the original Japanese version -- Higashikuni Naruhiko : a liberalist in the imperial family / Hatano Sumio -- Shidehara Kijūrō : his "final public duty" and the draft Constitution / Amakawa Akira -- Yoshida Shigeru : a master of situational thinking / Watanabe Akio -- Katayama Tetsu : the first batter under the new Constitution / Fumio Fukunaga -- Ashida Hitoshi : the intellectual and cultured man as politician / Masuda Hiroshi -- Hatoyama Ichirō : a tenacious attachment to the restoration of relations with the Soviet Union and constitutional revision / Yamamuro Kentoku -- Ishibashi Tanzan : a coherent liberal thinker / Inoki Takenori -- Kishi Nobusuke : frustrated ambition / Kitaoka Shinichi -- Ikeda Hayato : the man who created "the economic era" / Nakamura Takafusa -- Satō Eisaku : the truth about "the politics of waiting" / Kōsaka Masataka -- Tanaka Kakuei : the arrival of development politics / Mikuriya Takashi -- Miki Takeo : politics of conviction and public opinion / Shinkawa Toshimitsu -- Fukuda Takeo : winner in policy, loser in politics / Iokibe Makoto -- Ōhira Masayoshi : the one who raised the issue of deficit politics / Muramatsu Michio -- Suzuki Zenkō : the politician sought by power / Tanaka Zenʼichirō -- Nakasone Yasuhiro : the appearance of a presidential prime minister / Kusano Atsushi -- Takeshita Noboru : a conservative politician's melancholy / Kume Ikuo -- Uno Sōsuke : a symbol of the Liberal Democratic Party's unsoundness / Kume Ikuo -- Kaifu Toshiki : fatalistic weakness / Fukui Haruhiro -- Miyazawa Kiichi : the last leader of the main line of conservatives / Igarashi Takeshi -- Hosokawa Morihiro : the catastrophe of performance politics / Io Jun -- Hata Tsutomu : the limits of an "ordinary person" / Io Jun -- Murayama Tomiichi : the end of postwar democracy / Io Jun -- Appendix 1: List of Japanese political parties and intraparty groups appearing in this volume -- Appendix 2: List of Japanese schools and organizations appearing in this volume.