Shadow shoguns: the rise and fall of Japan's postwar political machine

PART ONE: KAKUEI TANAKA: MAN OF THE PEOPLE, MAN OF MEANS, 1918-1976: From penury to parliament

Snow country

Kaku-san versus the elite

Building a new Japan

The politician as entrepreneur

Arrested

PART TWO: "THE SHADOW SHOGUN OF MEJIRO": BUILDING A NATIIONAL MACHINE, 1976-1985: Back to the snow country

Bags of money

"Politics is power, power is numbers"

The loyal opposition

General hospital

The public works state

Court justice, political logic

PART THREE: THE SECOND GENERATION: THE "BUBBLE POLITICS" OF SHIN KANEMARU, NOBORU TAKESHITA, AND ICHIRO OZAWA, 1985-1992: The odd couple

"Ichiro...my lost son"

The coup

The age of languor

The don

"One big sale"

PART FOUR: THE MACHINE COLLAPSES, 1992-1996: Cracks in the foundation

Ozawa and his discontents

The boss turned reformer.