1st Edition
Fighting Japan's Cold War Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and His Times
Introduction
1: Nakasone’s Youth: From Lumber to the Home Ministry
2: Deployment and Defeat: A Lieutenant in the Navy
3: The "Young Officer": Nakasone’s Time in the Opposition
4. The Conservative Merger and Nakasone’s First Cabinet Position: Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency under Kishi
5: From "Killing Time" to Becoming a Faction Leader
6: “Autonomous Defense” and the Three Non-Nuclear Principles: Nakasone under Satō – Minister of Transportation and Director-General of the Defense Agency
7: "Neoliberalism" and the Oil Crisis: MITI Minister in the Tanaka Government
8: The “Sankaku Daifuku Chū” Era: LDP Secretary-General, General Council Chairman, and Director-General of the Administrative Management Agency
9: 1,806 Days as Prime Minister: Seeking to be a "Presidential Prime Minister"
I. Tanaka Kakuei’s Shadow and the Results of Proactive Diplomacy: Nakasone’s First Term
II. "Pacific Cooperation" and Privatization: Nakasone’s Second Term
III. The Weight of 304 Seats: Nakasone’s Third Term
10: "Rain of Cicada Cries": The 32 Years After Being Prime Minister
Conclusion
Biography
Ryuji Hattori is a Professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies at Chuo University, Japan and has an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.
Graham B. Leonard is an Independent Translator and Researcher based in Seattle, Washington, USA
Hattori, with translator Graham Leonard, has produced an amazing biography of Yasuhiro Nakasone that helps readers understand his place in modern Japanese history. … Nakasone is considered the "presidential prime minister" for his stately bearing and international presence. Moreover, he was one of Japan's leading and most prominent postwar politicians. … Not only has Hattori produced an amazing biography, but he has done so in a way that helps the reader understand prewar, wartime, postwar, and post-Cold War Japanese history and politics in a way most others have not. His faithfulness to primary documents and sources allows the biography to present an unbiased account of a statesman constantly thinking of Japan's place in the world. – Robert Eldridge in Japan Forward
