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  title info:
    title: Ozawa Ichirō and Japanese politics
    sub title: old versus new
  name:
    name part: Mulgan, Aurelia George.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 324 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Ozawa Ichirō was the axis on which Japanese politics turned for more than two decades. He helped to reshape the electoral system, political funding rules, the evolution of the party system, the nature of executive government, the roles and powers of bureaucrats and the conduct of parliamentary and policymaking processes. Admired and reviled in almost equal measure, Ozawa has been the most debated and yet least understood politician in Japan, with little agreement to be found among the many who have debated his patent political assets and palpable political flaws. This book examines the political goals, behavior, methods and practices of Ozawa Ichirō, and in doing so, provides fascinating insights into the inner workings of Japanese politics. It explores Ozawa's paradoxical and conflicting contributions in terms of two contrasting models of 'old' and 'new' politics. Indeed, therein lies the problem of understanding the 'real' Ozawa. He remained a practitioner of old politics despite his rhetorical agenda of change to bring about new politics. In seeking to unravel the Ozawa enigma, Aurelia George Mulgan reveals his primary motivations, to establish whether he sought power primarily to enact reforms, or, whether his reform goals simply disguised power-seeking objectives. This volume seeks to illuminate Ozawa's true character as a politician, and untangle the complex elements of old and new politics that he represents. Through an in-depth study of Ozawa and his political activities, this book shows how the Japanese political system works at the micro level of individual politicians, political relationships and systems. As such it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese politics, Asian politics and political systems.
  note: Aurelia George Mulgan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-319) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ozawa, Ichirō
      name part: 1942-
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1989-
  subject:
    topic: Politicians
    geographic: Japan
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
  classification: DS890.O93 M85 2015
  classification: 952.04/8092 B
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
  identifier: 9781138778344 (hardback)
  identifier: 1138778346 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781315772059 (e-book)
  identifier: 2014012397
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140618
    record change date: 20151206125847.0
    record identifier: in00003490406