CONTENTS

ArticlesClientelism as a Vote Choice: A Review with a Focus on Its Implications
for Economic Voting Studies
IZUOKA, Naoya…（ 1）Professor of Latin American Politics

Shinpei Goto and Yukichi Fukuzawa: Focus on Transfer Issue of theInstitute for Infectious Diseases
OGAWARA, Masamichi…（ 33）Professor of History of Japanese Political Thought

A Study of the Political Process Leading to Japan’s Acquisition ofCounterstrike Capabilities, 1999-2022
MIYAOKA, Isao…（ 49）Professor of International Relations

A Meso-Level Analysis of the Japanese LDP’s Policy Research Council(Seimu Chosa-kai): Focusing on the Health and Welfare Division and Its
Related Committees
OKU, Kentaro…（ 77）Professor of Japanese Political History

Measuring the Autonomy of the Personnel in the LDP of the House ofCouncillors
MATSUURA, Junsuke…（111）Associate Professor of Political Science, Legislative Process, Contemporary Japanese Politics

Where had ‘Japan’s First 39 Women MPs’ Gone: A Structural Analysis ofthe Mass Election Followed by Mass Failure in Early Postwar JapanSHIMIZU, Yuichiro…（137）Professor of Japanese Political History

Faculty of Policy Management

Election Management in Japan during the Meiji Era: A Case of the General
Election of 1890SUEKI, Takanori…（177）Teacher of Japanese Political History

Keio Senior High School

Goto Shinpei and the Consultant System of the Government-General ofTaiwan
WANG, Chi-Ming…（199）
Assistant Professor of Taiwan History
National Taiwan Normal University

A Study on “Kanrikosen” (the Limited Election of Meiji Government
Officials) in 1869
KASHIHARA, Hiroki…（219）Professor of Japanese Economic and Political History

Kansai University

OZAKI Yukio’s Argument about Respecting Chivalry
KACHI, Naoki…（251）Professor of Japanese Intellectual History

Heisei International University

Regarding the Influence of the Hokkaido Development Commission on theEstablishment of Tondenhei
KADOMATSU, Hideki…（279）Professor of Japanese Political History

Tohoku University of Community Service and Science

An Examination of the Teacher Invitation between Keio and Harvard
University around 1910: A Case Study on R. J. Ray
KANG, Tae-Youn…（307）
Lecturer of Politics

A Study on Kiyotaka Kuroda in “the Okubo Administration”: Diplomacy
and Domestic Politics in 1873-1874
KUBOTA, Satoshi…（329）Professor of Japanese Political History

Musashino Gakuin University

The Central Public Health Association and Branches in Prewar Japan
KOJIMA, Kazutaka…（359）
Professor of Japanese Political History

St. Andrew’s University

A Study of Decision-making Process for the Dispatch of Troops to Formosa
GOTO, Arata…（385）Associate Professor of Political History

Musashino University

A Consideration of Japanese- Manchurian-chinese Partnership Theory inthe Period of North China Buffer State Strategy: Mainly Political Party
Politician Ryūtarou Nagai
SAKAMOTO, Kenzou…（411）Professor of History of Modern Japanese Political Diplomacy

Heisei International University

The Intelligence Activities in Java by the Imperial Japanese Army Nakano
School Graduates: Especially focused on Captain Yanagawa Motoshige
SAWADA, Jiro…（435）Professor of Modern Japanese Political HistoryTakushoku University

Japanese War Legionnaires’ Association and Americanism on Immigration
Act of 1924: Reaction of Japanese Legionnaires’ Association and Conflicts
Brought by The Global Intersection of the Thoughts
TAMAKI, Hiroki…（493）Lecturer of Japanese Modern and Current History
Keio Research Center for the Liberal ArtsThe Negotiations for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights between
Japan and the Western Powers in 1896-1899
TSURUOKA, Satoshi…（517）Senior Researcher of Japanese Diplomatic History

Keio Research Institute at SFC

“Dokutan (German Spy)” in Tokyo Asahi Shimbun during the First WorldWar
MOROHASHI, Eiichi…（545）Lecturer of Politics and Modern Japanese History
Keio Research Center for the Liberal Arts

The Attitudes towards Online Political Activities Shown by the Membersof the Democratic Party of JapanYOSHIDA, Ryutaro…（573）Lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics