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

By Susan Carpenter

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403916551
• ISBN13: 9781403916556
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 9.2"