Abstract
The first statement is an excerpt from Kōichi Katō (1995, 12), one of the top LDP leaders who attempted vainly to topple the then prime minister Yoshirō Mori in the fall of 2000. He is a diplomat-turned-politician who served as the LDP secretary general.
Almost nothing gets decided in plenary session discussions.
—Kōichi Katō, HR
Everything is decided behind the scenes.
—Koichi Hamada, former HR
The PIRC is a committee in which we do things we cannot talk about.
—Jun’ichirō Koizumi, the then Minister of Health and Welfare
When I first entered the world of politics, I thought I could pass a bill if it had genuine merit. I learned otherwise. It is leaders like those with former Prime Minister Takeshita’s human relations skills that make things happen.
—Ki’ichi Miyazawa, former prime Minister
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© 2005 Yasumasa Kuroda
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Kuroda, Y. (2005). The Bilayer Theory. In: The Core of Japanese Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978349_2
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