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
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.
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'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
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