Fighting Japan's Cold War

Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and His Times

By:

Ryuji Hattori

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

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Yasuhiro Nakasone, who served as prime minister for more than five years in the 1980s, was one of Japan’s leading postwar politicians. This book is a biography of him, but by interweaving international politics and media appraisals of him, it also serves as an examination of Japan’s postwar politics. Nakasone was an innovative conservative who actively criticized the conservative mainstream, and this book reveals from both domestic and foreign policy perspectives how the Liberal Democratic Party governed. The Nakasone government served not only as the final phase of the Cold War era of LDP factional politics but also as the starting point for the general mainstream faction system that followed. With the lengthy passage of time since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of Japan’s 1955 party system, there is a need to reassess Nakasone, showing that there was much more to him than the popular picture of him as a far-right hawk who loudly advocated for Japan to engage in autonomous self-defense and as an opportunist leader of a small faction, and to place the era in which Nakasone lived its proper historical context.

Author Biography:

Ryuji Hattori is a Professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies at Chuo University, Japan and has an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Graham B. Leonard is an Independent Translator and Researcher based in Seattle, Washington, USA

Release date Australia

March 13th, 2023

Author

Ryuji Hattori

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Graham B. Leonard

Illustrations

3 Tables, black and white

Pages

268

Series

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

ISBN-13

9781032399096

Product ID

35996924

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