This article explores the relationship of Japan's ruling party vis- à-vis other actors in the political system, such as the bureaucracy and the business community—which have been the main pillars of conservative rule in that country for 38 years—as well as other interest groups. It also specifies in what way the democratic processes within the ruling party itself, and in the political system in general, have allowed, notwithstand ing the prevailing ideological conservatism, Japanese society to show one of the highest indexes of equality of income distribution in the world.
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