Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan

Abstract

Those who do not read Japanese seldom have access to analytic studies of the fascinating and surprisingly diverse world of contemporary Japanese political leadership. This little volume hardly fills that gap, but it does constitute a step toward bringing to the English reader some sense of the norms, beliefs, styles, and modes of exercising power of Japanese political leaders and the organizational and political contexts which are changing leadership role expectations. A second volume in this series concentrates more explicitly on leadership recruitment, although the subject is also addressed here.