1. Japan

2. Political Culture Homogeneity/Uniqueness Isolation Borrowing
Communitarian
Adaptability/Organizational ability
Emperor
Power is behind the scenes

3. Periods of History 10th-17th: Feudal Japan 1600-1853 Tokugawa Era
1868 Meiji Restoration
1920s-1940s:
Institutionalists vs. Nationalists

4. Post-War Japan Occupation 1946 Constitution Diet
Article 9
Diet
House of Representatives
House of Councillors
Prime Minister and cabinet

5. Parliamentary Process for PM
PM and House
serve full term
Party
wins
majority House PM PM dies or
General elects takes resigns
election PM office
of Lower
House
No party wins No Confidence fails majority motion
passes
Parties negotiate PM dissolves
to form coalition House
(50% of seats, plus one)

6. Iron Triangle
Liberal
Democratic Party
Business Ministries

7. 1955 System LDP: Liberal Democratic Party
SDPJ: Social Democratic Party of Japan
Consensus Politics

8. Tokyo 1945

9. Tokyo Years later

11. Collapse of 1955 System 1993 Election
Rise of Democratic Party of Japan
Koizumi Junichiro