Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform

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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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-08-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403916556

DOI: 10.1057/9780230508781

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 144