Japan's Postwar Party Politics
"Kohno's approach generates answers to questions that conventional interpretations fail to provide. . . . Unlike so many other studies that implicitly or explicitly assume that the Japanese case is unique, the study offers fertile grounds for comparison 'with political parties and competitive party systems in other advanced countries.'"--Japan Quarterly"Kohno has produced a cogent microanalysis of post-1945 party politics in Japan. . . . An informative re-creation of the political environment in which party leaders interacted and significant insight into the decision-making process that logically followed."--Choice