Factional Politics in Japan

Hans H. Baerwald was bom in Japan and lived there until the beginning of World War II. He returned as a language officer for the United States Army during the Occupation. Receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956, he was subsequently assistant and associate professor of Government at Miami University, Ohio. He spent the months of May to September, 1963, in Japan under a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and returned for ten days in November, 1963, to observe Japan’s elections.