Collected Writings of J.A.A. Stockwin: The Politics and Political Environment of Japan

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction 1
• Part I - Japanese Elections 17
• 1 - Electing the Kyoto Governor: Travail of the Opposition 19
• 2 - Shifting Alignments in Japanese Party Politics: the April 1974 Election for Governor of Kyoto Prefecture 23
• 3 - Democracy and Elections: Japan 35
• 4 - Electoral Pressures for Change: the Effect of Political Reform 52
• 5 - Japan's General Elections of June 2000: Revolution or Ripple? 71
• Part II - Japanese Political Parties and Political Activism 87
• 6 - 'Positive Neutrality'-The Foreign Policy of the Japanese Socialist Party 89
• 7 - The Japan Communist Party in the Sino-Soviet Dispute-From Neutrality to Alignment? 97
• 8 - The Japanese Socialist Party Under New Leadership 109
• 9 - The Communist Party of Japan 122
• 10 - Japan 136
• 11 - Political Parties in Postwar Japan 140
• 12 - The Japanese Opposition: Political Irrelevance or Wave of the Future? 150
• 13 - The Ultra-Right Wing in Japanese Politics 164
• 14 - The Rights and Lefts of Japanese Politics 175
• 15 - Japan: the Leader-Follower Relationship in Parties 185
• 16 - Political Parties and Political Opposition 202
• 17 - Politics, Power and Parties in Japan 220
• 18 - Challenge and Response, or Challenge and Failure to Respond?: the Nihon Shakaitō Under Doi Takako 236
• 19 - Japan's Opposition Parties and the Prospects for Political Change 247
• 20 - From Jsp to Sdpj: the New Wave Society and the 'New' Nihon Shakaitō 256
• 21 - On Trying to Move Mountains: the Political Career of Doi Takako 270
• Part III - The Japanese Political System and Political System Reform 285
• 22 - Perceiving Japanese Politics 287
• 23 - Is Japan a Post-Marxist Society? 295
• 24 - Alternative Politics for Japan? 308
• 25 - Is Japan Becoming Harder to Govern? 317
• 26 - Understanding Japanese Politics 336
• 27 - Japan's Political Crisis of 1980 347
• Notes 362
• 28 - Japanese Politics: New Directions or the Story as Before? 363
• 29 - The Occupation: Continuity or Change? 374
• 30 - Japan as a Political Model? 385
• 31 - -Dynamic and Immobilist Aspects of Japanese Politics-Parties, Politicians and the Political System-Conclusions 396
• 32 - New Directions in Japanese Politics 441
• 33 - The Need for Reform in Japanese Politics 449
• 34 - Deciphering Japanese Politics 466
• 35 - Converging or Diverging? the Politics of Japan and Britain 478
• 36 - Do Political Parties Matter? Reflections on Japan and Europe 493
• Part IV - Political Factionalism 507
• 37 - Faction and Ideology in Postwar Japanese Socialism 509
• 38 - A Comparison of Political Factionalism in Japan and India 520
• 39 - Factionalism in Japanese Political Parties 535
• Index 546