ABSTRACT
Having been elected, Nakano became one of the representatives in the Diet of a postwar younger generation of politicians (shinjin, shōsōha) who were identified with the new pressures for reform arising in the current environment of ideological ferment and economic instability. Their slogan was ‘national reconstruction’, in contrast with the mere distribution of patronage which had been the main concern of the established parties in their contest for power with the clan oligarchy.
