Online supplements

Material for my article, forthcoming in the Japanese Journal of Political Science, entitled "Occupational Branches of Japan's Ruling Party: Building Linkages While Hedging Clientelist Exposure"

Online material referenced in the footnotes

• footnote 12, LDP official translation of 職域支部 according to the list versus the English party constitution
• footnote 25, establishing the LDP Rental Management Branches
• footnote 32, the assertive Japan Medical Association
• footnote 36, goals of the occupational branches from the Pharmacist Association in Toyama
• footnote 41, the Nursing Federation receiving bronze medal for party building

A version of table 2, but for Shiga instead of Toyama, listing the top 15 occupational branches in Shiga.