Structural reform in Japan : breaking the iron triangle /
Eisuke Sakakibara.
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.
- xix, 167 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collapse and transformation -- Japan's modernization and industrialization -- The formation and collapse of the public construction state -- From structural reform to institutional reform -- Development of global corporations -- The Japanese banking system and its nonperforming loan problem -- Reopening Japan and reforming the foreign policy regime -- The formation of the Japanese meritocracy system -- The central versus local government debate -- Fundamental change in agricultural policy -- Health care reform -- Building a new nation.