Book of Donmon Teith

This book explains why no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a sustained challenger in Japan.

Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world.

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political eco

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democ

The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in 2009 with a commanding majority, ending fifty years of almost uninterrupted Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)