Print version: Watanabe, Tsuneo. Japan’s backroom politics : factions in a multiparty age. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2013 x, 280 pages New studies of modern Japan ISBN 9780739173893
Introduction : the defeated one : the decline of party politicians -- The backroom : testimonies of party leadership elections -- Popularity : leadership and the people -- Money : the basis for politics -- Factions, part 1 : steps to an administration -- Factions, part 2 : background of leaders -- Multiparty age : undercurrents of the 1967 elections -- The myth of a two-party system : recommendations for a multiparty system -- The end of backroom politics : administrations in a multiparty age.