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Japanese Local Political Representation in Question – Metropolitics

Are Japanese local elected representatives representative of the population? Based on an unprecedented sociological survey of the Okayama prefecture in Japan, Yasushi Iwabuchi and Michel Koebel present avenues for reflection on the biases of political representation. Most of the research on Japanese political staff focuses on the political elite of the archipelago. With the exception of a few localized qualitative studies (Osawa and Yoon 2019), …
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Are Japanese local elected representatives representative of the population? Based on an unprecedented sociological survey of the Okayama prefecture in Japan, Yasushi Iwabuchi and Michel Koebel present avenues for reflection on the biases of political representation. Most of the research on Japanese political staff focuses on the political elite of the archipelago. With the exception of a few localized qualitative studies (Osawa and Yoon 2019), …

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metropolitiques.eu broke the news in on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
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