Amakudari in the Ministries’ IAIs, Public Corporations, Research Institutes and Affiliated Agencies: the Insidious Side

Susan Carpenter

Chapter 2 in Japan’s Nuclear Crisis, 2012, pp 52-70 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In his book Troubled Times Lincoln (1999), pointed to a key reason for Japan’s closed markets: The amakudari system provides substantial reason to be skeptical of the extent of deregulation and the unilateral market opening in Japan because of the manner in which this practice establishes a broad web of personal ties between government and Japanese firms.1

Keywords: Prime Minister; Public Pension; Ministry Official; International Business Machine; Forestry Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230363717_3

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