The Japanese Liberal-Democratic party and policy-making
Abstract
Numerous articles and several books have been
already written on various aspects of party politics in
postwar Japan, including treatments of the conservative
parties. These have been mainly in Japanese by Japanese
authors but some also have been written by foreign scholars.
Few detailed studies, however, of the actual process of
policy-making in the Liberal-Democratic Party, have yet
been undertaken despite the growing awareness of the urgent
need for a better understanding of the government and politics
in contemporary Japan, of which this is an important
aspect.