Is there a Japanese phrase that gets translated into English as "Steel and rice" coalition?


In a course I attended about Japan, there was the mention of a "Steel and
rice" coalition. I don't understand the concept, so I can't define it.

When searching for the phrase, one match was for the following, in "Japan
Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring" by Frances McCall
Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies:

> The result was a "steel and rice" coalition backing the LDP, whereby heavy
> industry provided money for campaigns and farmers turned out the vote in
> large numbers.

The book compares it with an "iron and rye" coalition in nineteenth-century
Germany. This makes me suspect that there is not a Japanese phrase that gets
translated into English as "steel and rice" coalition, but instead English-
speakers merely made a snowclone based on "iron and rye".

Is there a phrase that exists in Japanese that gets translated into English as
"steel and rice" coalition?




「[農工同盟]{のうこうどうめい}」 is the only term I could think of.

I am pretty sure that it should predate "steel and rice" in English, but I
highly doubt that it predates "iron and rye" from German.




「[農工同盟]{のうこうどうめい}」 is the only term I could think of.

I am pretty sure that it should predate "steel and rice" in English, but I
highly doubt that it predates "iron and rye" from German.

