General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Supplementary budgets totalling ¥3.2 trillion first tranche (Feb 1995) with cumulative reconstruction spending exceeding ¥10 trillion over five years following the 17 Jan 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (6,434 deaths). Expanded disaster-response institutional framework under the Murayama government and established reinforced building-code + reconstruction-authority templates replicated in later disasters.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.