Sakakibara, Eisuke.

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.

0815776764 (cloth : alk. paper)

2003018460


Capitalism--Japan.
Banks and banking--Japan.


Japan--Economic conditions--1989-
Japan--Economic policy--1989-
Japan--Social policy.

HC462.95 / .SAK 2003