Japanese Political Reform

The Japanese political system at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s was characterized by an increasing number of corruption cases calling for a reform. An upsurge of public outrage that culminated in a consensus within the mass media and among a considerable number of Diet members, business leaders and bureaucrats, and the ignoring of other institutional and societal factors, resulted in the altering of the electoral system that would function …

…workings of the new reform and how the LDP, Koenkai, and overall campaigning have developed. Despite the creation of single-seat districts, no evidence has shown a switch in differing styles of campaigning. The common theme that Christensen found, was "the political realignment had opened new doors with respect on who to approach...and with only two or three serious candidates running in a district, candidates had to approach any and all organizations possible to win".