Title: state of Japan's parties 1960
Review: The book provides a usually rather dry snapshot of post-war Japanese political parties, stopping at 1960. There are some prescient statements, "...the Liberal Democratic and Socialist parties are likely to dominate the national scene for the forseeable future." Not a bad prediction, considering the Liberal Democrat takeover was only three years old in 1960, and the "one-and-a-half" party system lasted another 24 years after 1960.It's hard to get a lot of post-war Japanese history in English as "history" rather than "current events" (John Dower's excellent Embracing Defeat is an exception) so I like to pick up outdated current events books like this one -- unfortunately, the book is awfully dry and technical, lots of raw data and charts. Some interesting analysis, but I ended up skipping a lot of pages. Cut to the chase.
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