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This book examines the lives and times of Japan's postwar prime ministers, covering the period from 1945 to 1995. Written by Japan's leading scholars, it is the first English-language biographical portrait of these twenty-three individuals who helped lead Japan on its road to recovery, its return to the community of nations, and its subsequent prosperity. Each chapter brings out, to varying degrees, the larger political and historical environment, party dynamics, and personality traits of the prime ministers. In addition, the book discusses not only the policy choices the prime ministers made, but how those decisions were made and what the consequences were for the country, ruling party, and the individual who made them. The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945-1995 fills a large void in the literature on postwar Japan by introducing the actual people who made the decisions during these important years, rather than simply discussing the theories and institutions in which those decisions were made.
Contents
Supervising Translator's Preface
Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the Original Japanese Version
Chapter 1: Higashikuni Naruhiko: A Liberalist in the Imperial Family, Hatano Sumio
Chapter 2: Shidehara Kijuro: His "Final Public Duty" and the Draft Constitution, Amakawa Akira
Chapter 3: Yoshida Shigeru: A Master of Situational Thinking, Watanabe Akio
Chapter 4: Katayama Tetsu: The First Batter under the New Constitution, Fumio Fukunaga
Chapter 5: Ashida Hitoshi: The Intellectual and Cultured Man as Politician, Masuda Hiroshi
Chapter 6: Hatoyama Ichiro: A Tenacious Attachment to the Restoration of Relations with the Soviet Union and Constitutional Revision, Yamamuro Kentoku
Chapter 7: Ishibashi Tanzan: A Coherent Liberal Thinker, Inoki Takenori
Chapter 8: Kishi Nobusuke: Frustrated Ambition, Kitaoka Shinichi
Chapter 9: Ikeda Hayato: The Man Who Created "The Economic Era," Nakamura Takafusa
Chapter 10: Sato Eisaku: The Truth about "The Politics of Waiting," Kosaka Masataka
Chapter 11: Tanaka
