Looking for Leadership by Sahashi Ryo; Gannon James; Ando Yuka Uchida

Author:Sahashi, Ryo; Gannon, James; Ando, Yuka Uchida
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Japan Center for International Exchange

NOTES

1. When the Meiji Constitution went into effect in November 1890, Aritomo Yamagata was already serving as prime minister, so he is counted as the first prime minister in office since the introduction of parliamentary democracy in Japan. For the purposes of this chapter, an uninterrupted spell in office for a prime minister is considered a single term in office, and the instances when a prime minister returned to office after being out of power are counted as additional terms. For instance, Shinzo Abe, who served in office from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012, is counted as both the 68th and 74th prime minister.

2. In the one remaining case, which took place in 1955, Ichiro Hatoyama's second cabinet was dissolved but the prime minister retained his post. However, this was an exceptional situation since the dissolution took place because of the merger that Hatoyama helped engineer to form the LDP.

3. In December 2012, a DPJ prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, also left office after his party lost in Lower House elections.

4. All public opinion polling numbers in this chapter come from the Jiji Tsushinsha polling database.

5. The term Sankaku Daifuku refers to the politicians’ names—Takeo Miki (“san” is another reading for the character “mi”), Kakue Tanaka (“kaku”), Masayoshi Ohira (“dai” is another reading for “o”), and Takeo Fukuda (“fuku”). Sankaku Daifuku also brought to mind the traditional daifuku cakes that were cut into triangles (i.e., sankaku) for sale and which looked different from one another, much like the four factional rivals did, but tasted the same on the inside.

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