ABSTRACT
First published in Problems of Communism, vol. XVI, Jan-Feb 1967 (US Information Agency)
WRITING AS RECENTLY as five years ago, an American scholar of Japan’s political institutions dismissed the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) as no more effective than its counterpart in the United States’ 1 —that is to say, as an insignificant force in Japanese politics. Today, such a belittling assessment no longer appears possible.
