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Structural reform in Japan : breaking the iron triangle / Eisuke Sakakibara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sakakibara, Eisuke.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Japan.
- Capitalism.
- Banks and banking--Japan.
- Banks and banking.
- Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.
- Japan.
- Japan--Economic policy--1989-.
- Japan--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this candid book, Japan's former top financial diplomat asserts the urgent need for wholesale structural reform to revitalize the long-stagnant Japanese economy. Eisuke Sakakibara envisions a social and economic revolution that encompasses all sectors of Japanese society.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610812882
- 9781280812880
- 1280812885
- 9780815796268
- 0815796269
- OCLC:
- 476016386
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