Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State

by Johnson, Chalmers

• ISBN13: 9780393314502
• ISBN10: 0393314502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The godfather of Japanese revisionism, author of Miti and the Japanese Miracle and president of the Japan Policy Research Institute explains how--and why--Japan has become a world power in the past 25 years. Johnson lucidly explains here how the Japanese economy will thrive as it moves from a producer-dominated economy to a consumer-oriented headquarters for all of East Asia.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
La Serenissima of the East	p. 21
Social Values and the Theory of Late Economic Development in East Asia	p. 38
Comparative Capitalism: The Japanese Difference	p. 51
Trade, Revisionism, and the Future of Japanese-American Relations	p. 69
The Foundations of Japan's Wealth and Power and Why They Baffle the United States	p. 96
Japan: Who Governs? an Essay on Official Bureaucracy	p. 115
The Reemployment of Retired Government Bureaucrats in Japanese Big Business	p. 141
Omote (explicit) and Ura (implicit): Translating Japanese Political Terms	p. 157
Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan	p. 183
Puppets and Puppeteers: Japanese Political Reform	p. 212
The Patterns of Japanese Relations with China, 1952-1982	p. 235
Reflections on the Dilemma of Japanese Defense	p. 264
Rethinking Asia	p. 281
History Restarted: Japanese-American Relations at the End of the Century	p. 296
Notes	p. 325
Acknowledgments	p. 367
Index	p. 369
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