 IntroductionSusan Carpenter
Chapter 1 in Why Japan Can’t Reform, 2008, pp 3-38 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In 2003 the author published Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can’t Reform.2 The book concerns the public corporations that were established by Japan’s national ministries in the 1950s and 1960s to aid in the restoration of Japan’s war-devastated economy. It was the first book in English that focused on these organizations as the vehicles during Japan’s post-war years that have served to perpetuate a rigid and ingrown system of government administration of the political economy, which can no longer accommodate the pressures of a rapidly changing social political economy.3 Indeed, Special Corporations are at the heart of government administration because they effectively are extensions of the national ministries. Furthermore, the corporations, along with their subsidiaries, have come to serve as the route which ministry officials can use to migrate to upper-management positions in private industry after their retirement from their agencies. Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Prime Minister; Liberal Democratic Party; Social Insurance Agency; Basic Pension (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59506-4_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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