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Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy

Why Japan Can't Reform

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  • © 2003

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  1. Susan Carpenter
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 1-13

  3. Special Corporations: On and On They Go

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 14-50

  4. The Bureaucracy: Origins of Power

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 51-59

  5. The Power of the Bureaucracy: The Continuing Saga

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 60-76

  6. The Interpersonal Networks between Government and Business

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 77-90

  7. The ties that Bind: amakudari and shukko

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 91-104

  8. The Japan External Trade Organization: The Scent of a Ministry

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 105-118

  9. Conclusion: Non-Performing Reforms

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 119-125

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 126-144
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This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations (public corporations, supported primarily with public funding from a state-run banking agency) in order to intensify their administrative power over industries and local governments and to perpetuate the interests of elite civil servants by facilitating the migration to post-retirement positions in the private sector. The book explains why the existence of these organizations inhibits the Prime Ministers efforts to implement structural reforms.

About the author

SUSAN CARPENTER worked for seven years in an American branch office of the Japan External Trade Organization, a Special Status Corporation. She is currently a Visiting Research Scholar in the School of Management at the University of Edinburgh.

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