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GO256: Conflict in East Asia

GO256: Conflict in East Asia . Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Lectures 6 and 7. Japan. Historical Overview. Tokugawa (Edo) Period. Baku-han system Confucian order Sakoku. Meiji Restoration. Western ideas Industrialization Constitution. Japanese Imperialism. China Russia.

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GO256: Conflict in East Asia

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  1. GO256: Conflict in East Asia Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Lectures 6 and 7

  2. Japan

  3. Historical Overview

  4. Tokugawa (Edo) Period • Baku-han system • Confucian order • Sakoku

  5. Meiji Restoration • Western ideas • Industrialization • Constitution

  6. Japanese Imperialism • China • Russia Beheading a spy, 1905

  7. Taisho Democracy • Political parties • Corruption Hara Kei

  8. Militarism • Disenchantment • Disorder • Dispatch

  9. The Great Pacific War

  10. Total Defeat Tokyo, March 1945

  11. Occupation • Demilitarization • Democratization

  12. Reverse Course

  13. Time of Conflict: AMPO Asanuma Inejiro’s assassination, 1960

  14. Time of Conflict: Labor The Flag of Sanbetsu

  15. The 1955 System • Left and right socialists reconcile • Two conservative parties merge

  16. LDP: One-Party Dominance

  17. Developmentalism • Government-business cooperation • Business-business cooperation • Labor-management cooperation Ikeda Hayato

  18. Costs of Developmentalism

  19. Expanding the Base

  20. Retail Politics Tanaka Kakuei

  21. LDP Clientelism • Koenkai • Factions • Zoku

  22. Money Politics • Recruit • Sagawa Kyubin

  23. Why clientelism (and money politics)? • Culture: “group-ism” • Institutionalism: history • Rational choice: electoral rules

  24. The Old Rules • SNTV • MMDs

  25. The Old Party Line • Communists • LDP • Socialists • Democratic Socialists • Komeito

  26. Chaos in the 90s • Rise of new parties • Collapse of LDP rule • Electoral reform • SM Plurality (300 in HR and 144 HC) • PR (180 in HR and 98 in HC) • LDP returns to power

  27. 2000 HR Election • LDP: 233 • Democratic Party: 127 • Komeito: 31 • Others: 89

  28. 2003 HR Election • LDP: 237 • DPJ: 177 • Komeito: 34 • Others: 32

  29. “Lionheart”

  30. “Henjin”

  31. 2005 HR Election • LDP: 292 • DPJ: 113 • Komeito: 31 • Others: 44

  32. Abe Shinzo

  33. Pro-Abe Interests • Nippon Keidanren • Nationalists

  34. Anti-Abe Interests • Rengo • Nokyo • Feminists • Peace Activists

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