Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. TABLES VII
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI
5. INTRODUCTION. Contemporary Politics 1
6. PART ONE. LDP Rule, 1955-1980
7. ONE. Security Treaty Revision 15
8. TWO. Income Doubling 51
9. THREE. The Reversion of Okinawa 85
10. FOUR. Remodeling the Archipelago 123
11. FIVE. The Purification of the Political World 158
12. PART TWO. The Dynamics of the 1955 System
13. SIX. The LDP 205
14. SEVEN. The Bureaucracy and Interest Groups 251
15. EIGHT. The Socialists 305
16. NINE. The Labor Movement 351
17. TEN. Multiple Parties and Nonpartisans 383
18. Epilogue: LDP Rule in the 1980s 408
19. APPENDIX 1: LDP PARTY PRESIDENT SELECTION PROCESSES, 1955 - 1990 441
20. TABLES 445
21. BIBLIOGRAPHY 487
22. INDEX 495