Kakufuku war

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Tanaka Kakuei Fukuda Takeo
Tanaka Kakuei
Fukuda Takeo

The Kakufuku War ( Japanese 角 福 戦 争 Kakufuku sensō ) was a power struggle in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan between Tanaka Kaku ei ( Tanaka faction ) and Fuku da Takeo ( Fukuda faction ) in the 1970s and early 1980s. Years. The highlights of the dispute were the elections for party chairmanship in 1972 and 1978, the "forty-day dispute", when Fukuda's supporters voted for Fukuda as prime minister after the LDP lost the majority in the 1979 general election against the Tanaka-supported party leadership under Ōhira Masayoshi ( Ōhira faction ), as well as the successful vote of no confidence due to the absence of Fukuda's supporters and the resulting new lower house election in 1980 , in which Ōhira died from exhaustion during the election campaign .

background

Tanaka and his faction belonged to the so-called "conservative mainstream" (former Liberal Party, Yoshida supporters), which was initially in the minority after the party was founded in 1955, but took over the party leadership in 1960. From Tanaka's tenure as party chairman and prime minister (1972–1974), he was considered the most influential politician in the party for years - also referred to by the media as the "shadow shogun" of Japanese politics. The Fukuda faction, on the other hand, comprised a large part of the "conservative tributary" (former Democratic Party, Hatoyama supporters). After the LDP election defeat in 1976 , Miki Takeo was replaced with the support of Tanaka and the other LDP leaders, and Fukuda was chairman of the party without a candidate. However, in the election for party leadership in 1978 - for the first time with the newly introduced national primaries - he was now supported by hira Masayoshi, who was now supported by the Tanaka faction.

While intra-party conflicts are common in Japanese politics - e.g. B. the power struggles between Hatoyama and Yoshida in the post-war period, the “KK war” between Katō Kōichi and Kōno Yōhei of the 1990s or the “post-parliament” of 2005, when Koizumi Jun'ichirō excluded opponents of his post-privatization from the LDP The Kakufuku War reached a climax in extent and duration at a time when, among other things, the consequences of the oil crisis and the Lockheed scandal endangered the LDP majority as a whole for the first time.

See also

  • Shiina Etsusaburō , to whom the decision on the party chairman-prime minister fell in 1974 in the "Shiina decision" in view of an impending split in the Kakufuku War.

literature

  • Masaya Itō: 自民党 戦 国史 ( jimintō sengoku-shi ; "History of the Warring States of the LDP") Asahi , Sonorama 1982, ISBN 4-257-03163-8 .
  • Jacob Schlesinger: Shadow shoguns: the rise and fall of Japan's postwar political machine. Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8047-3457-7 .
  • Bizarre plan: two ex-prime ministers decide who will be head of government . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1982, pp. 166–170 ( online - note: the article uses the term parliamentary faction, which refers to factions within the party ).