Japan's deepening economic crisis is fundamentally a political crisis. Economic reform is crucial to the recovery of the Japanese economy, but the political system is not delivering the necessary reforms. All eyes are on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his program of "structural reform." The Koizumi Administration has enjoyed most of the political conditions identified as conducive to economic reform. Why then, has the Koizumi revolution failed? This book explains why the process of economic reform in Japan is so ...
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Japan's deepening economic crisis is fundamentally a political crisis. Economic reform is crucial to the recovery of the Japanese economy, but the political system is not delivering the necessary reforms. All eyes are on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his program of "structural reform." The Koizumi Administration has enjoyed most of the political conditions identified as conducive to economic reform. Why then, has the Koizumi revolution failed? This book explains why the process of economic reform in Japan is so problematic, and why reviving Japan's economy is proving so difficult. It offers a new explanation for Japan's failure to reform in terms of what is identified as Japan's "party-bureaucratic government" which undermines the power of the Prime Minister and in which forces opposed to reform are embedded. It concludes that achieving economic reform will require that Japan first reform its policymaking system to give sufficient power to the executive in order to override the
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