The prime ministers of postwar Japan, 1945-1995 : their lives and times / edited by Akio Watanabe ; supervisory translation by Robert D. Eldridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watanabe, Akio, 1932- editor.

Eldridge, Robert D., translator.

Standardized Title:

Sengo Nihon no saishōtachi. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Prime ministers--Japan--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Japan.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 386 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

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.

Notes:

Translated from the Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version:

ISBN:

9781498510011

1498510019

OCLC:

936234390