I've been thinking about @willwilkinson's piece on the crisis or urban under-representation and wracking my brain to think of another country that deliberately places so many of its state-level-equivalent administrative centers outside of its major urban agglomerations.
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That may be, but the effect has got to be very different in a country where something like a quarter of the population lives in a single metropolitan area.
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It's also important that there aren't really strong partisan differences between urban and rural areas of Japan; the LDP dominates everywhere
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It was also created there by the U.S. to prevent left wing governments. The first government elected after the war was socialist, so they changed the districting and Japan was basically a one party conservative state for 40 years.
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