Abstract
The purpose of this article is to examine the effect of the candidate strategy planned by the general of the Democratic Party Japan, by qualitative analysis of the 2011 Upper House Election in Kyoto prefecture district as a crucial case. In recently years, it has been argued by the many scholars or newspaper that OZAWA's influence or party leadership is very stronger. However, the image of “OZAWA stronger, Party stronger” is really correct? In this paper, through the case study of Kyoto district in Japan as a crucial case, I show that Ozawa's influence is not necessarily strong. The findings of this research are following two points: First, Ozawa's plan is a result of compromise between central and local organization. Second, autonomy of DPJ's local chapters, at least, in Kyoto prefecture district, had been maintained under 2011 Upper House Election.
