Jap Politics

According to Webster democracy is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic elections. The question at hand is does this apply to Japan, or more specifically postwar Japan? If this isn’t what Japan has then what type of government do they have? Garon and Mochizuki argue that it has been a managed form of …

…statement. The system has gone from a modified one party system to one that is up for grabs at each election including the one this summer. With the new prime minister hopefully Japan will become even more democratic. I think that it’s safe to say that Japan has a parliamentary democracy and not a managed democracy. “It was not a perfect democracy but where, after all, they said, does the perfect democracy exist?”(Pyle, 267).