Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lower House elections are children of Diet members. These elections will determine whether the ruling party, now in jeopardy after losing its majority in the Upper House last July, can hold on to control of the government it has dominated for 35 years. But the prevalence of the nisei giin, or second- ^ generation politicians, has raised fears that Japanese politics is increasingly being restricted to an elite kinship network...
Under Japan's constituency system, members of the same party often run against each other in the same district. Unable to campaign on different platforms, the candidates stump on their ability to bring special benefits like new roads and factories to their towns. Nisei have a distinct advantage because they inherit the so-called three bans: jiban (constituency), kanban (name or recognition) and kaban (suitcase or campaign chest); they don't have to spend their early careers building these...