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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Watanabe, Akio, 1932- (Editor ), Eldridge, Robert D. (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.