Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945–1995 Their Lives and Times
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Biographical note
Akio Watanabe is vice chairman of the Research Institute for Peace and Security. Robert D. Eldridge is former associate professor of Japanese political and diplomatic history at Osaka University.The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945–1995 is a collection of short and polished biographies of twenty-three prime ministers of post-World War II Japan written by highly respected leading scholars. This book provides the best guidance for understanding the various difficult choices they faced and for understanding postwar Japanese history.
- Ryota Murai, Komazawa University,
Translated into English from Japanese for the first time, The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945–1995 is a must read for all of those who are interested in postwar Japanese history and seek deeper knowledge of the individual leaders who led Japan from the period of the Occupation through Japan’s rapid economic rise, and to the bursting of the economic bubble in the mid-1990s. This book provides insight as to how Japan has transformed itself, particularly in the area of national security, and reveals the crests and troughs of U.S.-Japan relations from Prime Minister Higashikuni to Murayama.
- Tosh Minohara, Kobe University,