Some features of political reform of the liberal democratic party of Japan in the recent decade

• Main Author: Nguyen, Tuan Tu
• Other Authors: Kỷ yếu Hội thảo Quan hệ Việt Nam - Nhật Bản ĐHQGHN, 2011
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội 2020
• Subjects: Nhật Bản > Chính trị; Cải cách chính trị
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/98558
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

In this paper, I sketch the unfolding of political reform from the Recruit stock - for favors scandal in the summer of 1988, in which virtually every Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader had played a part, political reform was for several years the most important issue on the agenda in Japanese politics and finally culminated in the reform of the Lower House electoral system in 1994. Three groups active in this process, all advocating political reform, deserve particular attention: the group of young LDP Diet members who eventually formed the New Sakigake Party - the Harbingers, the LDP's Ozawa Ichiro and his followers, who also broke away from the LDP at around the same time as the Sakigake Party and the Japan New Party