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Politics in Contemporary Japan: Pluralist Scholarship in the Conservative Era— A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Gary D. Allinson
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Bureaucrats have historically dominated many Asian polities, and Japan is no exception. Ever since the Meiji Restoration of 1868, public servants in national ministries have enjoyed special privileges and powers. They shaped Japan's emergence as an industrial state, they collaborated with militarists to govern during the wartime era, and they presided over Japan's postwar economic ascent. Only in recent decades has a bureaucratically dominant polity in Japan come under challenge. A more organized, affluent, and demanding populace has been one force encroaching on bureaucratic influence. The other has been a long-standing, increasingly experienced, and cautiously pragmatic contingent of Liberal Democratic party (LDP) leaders and legislators.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , May 1989 , pp. 324 - 332
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989

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