The prime ministers of postwar Japan, 1945-1995 : their lives and times /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Sengo Nihon no saishōtachi.
Other Authors: Watanabe, Akio, 1932- (Editor), Eldridge, Robert D. (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the English edition
  • Preface to the original Japanese version
  • Higashikuni Naruhiko : a liberalist in the imperial family / Hatano Sumio
  • Shidehara Kijūrō : his "final public duty" and the draft Constitution / Amakawa Akira
  • Yoshida Shigeru : a master of situational thinking / Watanabe Akio
  • Katayama Tetsu : the first batter under the new Constitution / Fumio Fukunaga
  • Ashida Hitoshi : the intellectual and cultured man as politician / Masuda Hiroshi
  • Hatoyama Ichirō : a tenacious attachment to the restoration of relations with the Soviet Union and constitutional revision / Yamamuro Kentoku
  • Ishibashi Tanzan : a coherent liberal thinker / Inoki Takenori
  • Kishi Nobusuke : frustrated ambition / Kitaoka Shinichi
  • Ikeda Hayato : the man who created "the economic era" / Nakamura Takafusa
  • Satō Eisaku : the truth about "the politics of waiting" / Kōsaka Masataka
  • Tanaka Kakuei : the arrival of development politics / Mikuriya Takashi
  • Miki Takeo : politics of conviction and public opinion / Shinkawa Toshimitsu
  • Fukuda Takeo : winner in policy, loser in politics / Iokibe Makoto
  • Ōhira Masayoshi : the one who raised the issue of deficit politics / Muramatsu Michio
  • Suzuki Zenkō : the politician sought by power / Tanaka Zenʼichirō
  • Nakasone Yasuhiro : the appearance of a presidential prime minister / Kusano Atsushi
  • Takeshita Noboru : a conservative politician's melancholy / Kume Ikuo
  • Uno Sōsuke : a symbol of the Liberal Democratic Party's unsoundness / Kume Ikuo
  • Kaifu Toshiki : fatalistic weakness / Fukui Haruhiro
  • Miyazawa Kiichi : the last leader of the main line of conservatives / Igarashi Takeshi
  • Hosokawa Morihiro : the catastrophe of performance politics / Io Jun
  • Hata Tsutomu : the limits of an "ordinary person" / Io Jun
  • Murayama Tomiichi : the end of postwar democracy / Io Jun
  • Appendix 1: List of Japanese political parties and intraparty groups appearing in this volume
  • Appendix 2: List of Japanese schools and organizations appearing in this volume.