Titlebook: Japan Decides 2012; The Japanese General Robert Pekkanen (Associate Professor, Adjunct Asso Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

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Japanese Politics Between the 2009 and 2012 Elections first time that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) did not win a plurality (at 119 seats). In 2012, the Japanese voters reversed the parties’ fortunes, awarding the LDP a huge majority (296) and humbling the DPJ (57 seats). Over their three-and-a-half-year reign, the DPJ would suffer numerous defec

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Keeping It Together: Party Unity and the 2012 Election force” in a system that had been largely dominated by two parties for the previous dozen years: the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). This third force potentially included a substantial number of politicians previously affiliated with the governing DPJ

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The 2012 Election Results: The LDP Wins Big by Defaulte, roared back with a landslide of its own. Entering the election with only 118 of 480 seats in the House of Representatives (HR), the lower house of the National Diet, the LDP emerged with a stomping majority of 294. Moreover, the LDP and its long-time coalition partner, Komeito, jointly surpassed

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The LDP’s Path Back to Power of the victory was staggering but due mainly to a rejection of the DPJ government, not the popularity of the LDP (Reed, Scheiner, Smith and Thies, this volume). That the LDP actually won fewer total votes in its “greatest victory” of 2012 than it had in its “worst loss” of 2009 is finely ironic—but

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The Remains of the DPJeted, and newer, more intriguing alternatives to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had emerged (Pekkanen and Reed, this volume). Amid these conditions, the party saddled itself with weak incumbents—by-products of the party’s 2009 boom—who would have struggled to defend their seats even under normal

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Challenging the Two-Party System: Third Force Parties in the 2012 Electiond duplicated that record with three more unpopular one-year prime ministers. The result was widespread disaffection with both major parties. The 2012 election thus looked like an ideal time to challenge the evolving two-party system and the field was crowded with new parties looking to take advantag