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Japanese Governance Beyond Japan Inc.
228 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Japan Inc was once used to describe the powerful political and economic system that delivers Japan's transformation to an industrial power. This book is about the breakdown and failure of policy coherence in Japan in the 1990s and how the political economy of Japan has changed in response. The essays in the volume seek to identify where change has occurred, as well as where things have not... Read more
List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface Abbreviations 1. Background Peter Drysdale and Jennifer Amyx 2. Electoral pressures for change: the effect of political reform J.A.A. Stockwin 3. The dynamics of coalition politics in Japan Aurelia George Mulgan 4. The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan a the crossroads Jennifer Amyx 5, The Big Bang financial systems reforms: implications for corporate governance Akiyoshi Horiuchi 6. A changing Minstry of International Trade and Industry Masura Kohno 7. Reform and continuity in Japan's shingikai deliberation councils Gregory W. Noble 8. Re-regulating Japanese transactions: the competition law dimension Veronica Taylor 9. Japanese women and the 'new' administrative state Leon Wolff 10. Agricultural policy and agricultural policymaking: perpetuating the status quo Aurelia George Mulgan Index
Biography
Jennifer Amyx is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Pete Drysdale is a Professor of Economics and the Executive Director of the Australian-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University.
'A broad and deep examination of how Japan's political economy and policymaking processes function, leading to the development of a greater understanding of how foreign governments in particular should and might handle Japan in the future.' - Contemporary Review
