Japan’s Political Transition

Issue Date July 2000
Volume 11
Issue 3
Page Numbers 166-169
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In The Logic of Japanese Politics, Gerald Curtis portrays the political history of Japan in the 1990s in its full complexity.

About the Author

Steven K. Vogel is associate professor of political science at the University of California–Berkeley.

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