When Hatoyama was quickly replaced by Kan, the Japanese political system "worked" in the sense that it efficiently produced another leader, although without direct popular mandate.

One year after Japan’s triple disasters, questions persist about the ability of the world’s third-largest economy to rebound and how its struggling political system can mount serious reforms ...

Examining Japan’s democracy, the role of the monarchy, its history and political system.

Japan’s political party system will be reinvented, one way or another. It is possible that reinvention will leave the LDP so strong and the opposition so impotent that Japan evolves into something ...

Japan changed its electoral system in 1994. Political reform that changes an electoral system seems 'irrational' and is therefore hard to explain. I attempt to combine historical and scientific ...