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Title Japan--change and continuity / edited by Javed Maswood, Jeffrey Graham, and Hideaki Miyajima
Published London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 230 pages)
Contents Cover; Japan -- Change and Continuity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Much ado about nothing? The limited scope of political reform in Japan; 3 Regulatory reforms in Japan: issues and prospects; 4 Reforming Japanese banks and the financial system; 5 Changes in the J-type firm: from bank-centred governance to internal governance; 6 Continuity and change in Japanese human capital formation; 7 Changing environmental policy agendas: Japan's approach to international environmental problems
8 Crusaders of the lost archipelago: the changing relationships between environmental NGOs and government in Japan9 Immigration and citizenship in contemporary Japan; 10 The reformatting of Japan for the people: science, technology and the new economy; 11 Japanese 'Education Reform': the plan for the twenty-first century; 12 Conclusion; Index
Summary Japan is currently undergoing many interesting changes, which the Japanese government trumpets as fundamental reform, but which some observers suspect will turn out to be superficial, part of a long sequence of changes which have been much less far-reaching than at first anticipated. This book provides a survey of the many changes currently in progress in Japan, including political reform, economic deregulation and liberalisation, and reforms to environmental policy, science and technology, education, and immigration policy. The essays in this volume explore the reform process in Japan overall
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Political planning -- Japan
Economic policy
Political planning
Politics and government
Social policy
SUBJECT Japan -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95001180
Japan -- Economic policy -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90003634
Japan -- Social policy
Subject Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Maswood, Syed Javed
Graham, Jeffrey
Miyajima, Hideaki
LC no. 2002028446
ISBN 9781135789060
1135789061
0203220471
9780203220474