Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945-1995 (eBook)

Their Lives and Times

Akio Watanabe (Herausgeber)

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2016
404 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1002-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the life and times of the postwar Japanese prime ministers from 1945 to 1995. Written by Japan’s leading scholars, it is the first biographical portrait in English of these twenty-three individuals who helped lead Japan on its road to recovery, its return to the community of nations, and its subsequent prosperity.

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This book examines the lives and times of Japan's postwar prime ministers, covering the period from 1945 to 1995. Written by Japan's leading scholars, it is the first English-language biographical portrait of these twenty-three individuals who helped lead Japan on its road to recovery, its return to the community of nations, and its subsequent prosperity. Each chapter brings out, to varying degrees, the larger political and historical environment, party dynamics, and personality traits of the prime ministers. In addition, the book discusses not only the policy choices the prime ministers made, but how those decisions were made and what the consequences were for the country, ruling party, and the individual who made them. The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 19451995 fills a large void in the literature on postwar Japan by introducing the actual people who made the decisions during these important years, rather than simply discussing the theories and institutions in which those decisions were made.

Autor

AkioWatanabe is vice chairman of the Research Institute for Peace and Security.Robert D. Eldridge is former associate professor of Japanese political and diplomatic history at Osaka University.

Inhalt

Supervising Translator’s PrefacePreface to the English EditionPreface to the Original Japanese VersionChapter 1: Higashikuni Naruhiko: A Liberalist in the Imperial Family, Hatano SumioChapter 2: Shidehara Kijūrō: His “Final Public Duty” and the Draft Constitution, Amakawa AkiraChapter 3: Yoshida Shigeru: A Master of Situational Thinking, Watanabe AkioChapter 4: Katayama Tetsu: The First Batter under the New Constitution, Fumio FukunagaChapter 5: Ashida Hitoshi: The Intellectual and Cultured Man as Politician, Masuda HiroshiChapter 6: Hatoyama Ichirō: A Tenacious Attachment to the Restoration of Relations with the Soviet Union and Constitutional Revision, Yamamuro KentokuChapter 7: Ishibashi Tanzan: A Coherent Liberal Thinker, Inoki TakenoriChapter 8: Kishi Nobusuke: Frustrated Ambition, Kitaoka ShinichiChapter 9: Ikeda Hayato: The Man Who Created “The Economic Era,” Nakamura TakafusaChapter 10: Satō Eisaku: The Truth about “The Politics of Waiting,” Kōsaka MasatakaChapter 11: Tanaka Kakuei: The Arrival of Development Politics, Mikuriya TakashiChapter 12: Miki Takeo: Politics of Conviction and Public Opinion, Shinkawa ToshimitsuChapter 13: Fukuda Takeo: Winner in Policy, Loser in Politics, Iokibe MakotoChapter 14: Ōhira Masayoshi: The One Who Raised the Issue of Deficit Politics, Muramatsu MichioChapter 15: Suzuki Zenkō: The Politician Sought by Power, Tanaka ZenichirōChapter 16: Nakasone Yasuhiro: The Appearance of a Presidential Prime Minister, Kusano AtsushiChapter 17: Takeshita Noburō: A Conservative Politician’s Melancholy, Kume IkuoChapter 18: Uno Sōsuke: A Symbol of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Unsoundness, Kume IkuoChapter 19: Kaifu Toshiki: Fatalistic Weakness, Fukui HaruhiroChapter 20: Miyazawa Kiichi: The Last Leader of the Main Line of Conservatives, Igarashi TakeshiChapter 21: Hosokawa Morihiro: The Catastrophe of Performance Politics, Iō JunChapter 22: Hata Tsutomu: The Limits of an “Ordinary Person,” Iō JunChapter 23: Murayama Tomiichi: The End of Postwar Democracy, Iō JunAppendix 1: List of Japanese Political Parties and Intraparty Groups Appearing in This VolumeAppendix 2: List of Japanese Schools and Organizations Appearing in This Volume

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Co-Autor: Akira Amakawa, Masataka Kosaka, Ikuo Kume, Atsushi Kusano, Hiroshi Masuda, Takashi Mikuriya, Michio Muramatsu, Takafusa Nakamura, Toshimitsu Shinkawa, Zenichiro Tanaka, Akio Watanabe, Haruhiro Fukui, Kentoku Yamamuro, Fukunaga Fumio, Sumio Hatano, Takeshi Igarashi, Takenori Inoki, Jun Io, Makoto Iokibe, Shinichi Kitaoka
• Übersetzer: Robert D. Eldridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Japanese foreign policy • Japanese politics • Political Leadership • Postwar Japan • Prime Ministers • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1002-7 / 1498510027
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1002-8 / 9781498510028