Modern Asian Studies

Table of Contents - 1967 - Volume 1, Issue 04  

Articles

A Japanese House of Councillors Election: Support Mobilization and Political Recruitment

Bradley M. Richardson

Research on the Japanese electoral process has quite legitimately focused on a broad range of topics. Elections in Japan have been studied from the perspective of national issues and evaluation of their popular appeal, description and analysis of voting behaviour patterns, and identification of the support mobilization efforts and campaign postures of individual candidates. Of the various kinds of electoral contests, those of the House of Representatives and local elections have received the greatest attention.