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

Abstract

In this paper, I sketch the unfolding of political perform the Recruit stock-for-favour scandal in summer of 1988,in which vertually every Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader had played a part, political reform was for several years the most important issue in the agenda Japanese politics and finally culminate in the reform of the Lower House electoral system in 1994