Nakano Koichi
Nakano Koichi is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. In English, he has published articles in The Journal of Japanese Studies, Asian Survey, The Pacific Review, West European Politics, Governance, and a single-authored book entitled Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France: When the Opposition Governs (Routledge, 2010) among others. In Japanese, his publications include Sengo Nihon no Kokka Hoshushugi: Naimu/Jichi Kanryō no Kiseki (Postwar State Conservatism in Japan: A Study of the Bureaucrats of the Ministry of Home Affairs) (Iwanami Shoten, 2013).