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The End of the Democratic Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yamaguchi Jiro  and
Gavan McCormack
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The departure of former leader, Ozawa Ichiro, from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) signifies that the twenty year-long effort at reform of politics and realignment of the political party system has come to a dead end. It was just twenty years ago, in the summer, that the resignation of Deputy Prime Minster Kanemaru Shin over political fund problems led to crisis within the Takeshita faction and the search for a way to reform Japanese party politics.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 28 , July 2012 , e5
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