ABSTRACT
The volume opens with a detailed autobiographical sketch of the author's original 'meeting with Japan', which began in 1961after taking up a post at ANU, Canberra (the result of a successful response to an advert in the Manchester Guardian). After twenty-one years in Australia, Arthur Stockwin moved back to the UK to take the chair of the then recently-established Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. He was to be in post there also for twenty one years, his retirement coinciding with publication of his Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan (Routledge, 2003).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I Japanese Elections
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Part II Japanese Political Parties and Political Activism
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Part III The Japanese Political System and Political System Reform
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Part IV Political Factionalism