ABSTRACT

Limited primarily to domestic politics during the postwar era. For dissertations on Japanese foreign relations, see the various subsections under International Relations. For dissertations on domestic political developments before 1945, see History (pages 62–99). Dissertations focusing on the Meiji and the Postwar Constitutions may be found under Law and the Judicial System—constitutions of Japan (pages 180–81), while dissertations on the historical development of these two constitutions are entered respectively under History—Meiji Period: First Half, 1868–1890 (pages 77–80) and Political Science—Allied Occupation (pages 210–14).