Note "Iron Triangle"
    bureaucracy
    LDP (or other big parties)
    Big Business

Very complex, wideley distributed "veto powers"

JT. 28 Issues

demonstrations, violence
revision of constitution
student movement
corruption - money poltiics
        Lockheed
        Recruit
        Others
        note: international comparisons by Transparancy International.org
                     2004  Japan 24 out of 145

environment
    Minamamata   1 | 2

foreign policy, of course