TY - BOOK AU - MISHIMA Ko TI - The presidentialization of Japan's LDP politics PY - 2019/// KW - JAPAN KW - POLITIC N2 - This article examines the elevated status of prime minister in the Japanese liberal party (LDP) government. Japan faced the new realities of the post cold war era and globalization in the 1990s, its reform-minded elite tried to enhance the prime minister's leadership with a view to creating a political centre that could draw a new navigation chart for their nation ER -