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election campaigning japanese style
p running for public office in postwar japan requires the endorsement of a political party and a sophisticated system of organizational support . in this volume gerald l. curtis provides a detailed case study of the campaign of sato bunsei who in 1967 ran for the lower house of japans parliament as a nonincumbent candidate of the ruling liberal democratic party . satos district consisted of a modern urban center and a tradition bound rural hinterland and featured a dynamic dialectic between old and new patterns of electioneering which led sat to innovate new strategies and techniques . p since its publication in 1971 sociologists and anthropologists as well as political scientists have considered curtiss microanalysis of japans political system to be a vital historical document offering insights into japanese social behavior and political organization that are still relevant . the japanese edition of curtiss pioneering study daigishi no tanjo a best seller is valued today as a classic and read and cited by journalists politicians and scholars alike . this edition features a new introduction in which the author reflects on the reception of his book and on the changes in japans election process since its publication .