The Japanese Diet has a rich history, dating back to 1890, making it the oldest non-Western
national parliament. Parliamentary studies traditionally emphasize legislative transformation …

This book seeks to explain how politics actually operates in the Japanese Diet using the
author's bilayer theory or dual power structure theory. It is about how politics in Japan …

Are parliamentarians involved in normative power diffusion? This case study of Japanese
parliamentarians' international activities shows how they engage in international norm …

From the election in 2007, Japanese parliamentary politics came into a status called “the
Twisted Diet”, in which the majority of two Houses in the Diet were consisted from different …

According to the conventional view, based on the widely accepted theory of viscosity, the
Japanese legislative process is characterized by a mode of operation known as “long …