The Promotion and Regulation of Industry in Japan

The international projection of Japan's corporate and technological power is transforming world manufacturing and the international political economy. Debate rages about Japan's economic success and the role of the state in nurturing it. The Japanese background to these debates is widely misunderstood and are analysed in research-based chapters by British and Japanese specialists on government-industry relations. Japanese policies for industrial promotion, regulation and decline are set in a context of comparative political economy. Sectors include pharmaceuticals, shipbuilding and telecommunications in the US and Japan.

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List of Tables - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; S.Wilks & M.Wright - PART 1: CONTEXT - The Comparative Context of Japanese Political Economy; S.Wilks & M.Wright - The Japanese Bureaucracy in the Industrial Policy Process; S.Wilks & M.Wright - PART 2: THE PROMOTION OF NEW INDUSTRIES - Government-Industry Relations in a Dual Regulatory Scheme: Engineering Research Associations as Policy Instruments; D.Ito - Science and Technology Policy in Japan: The Pharmaceutical Industry and New Technology; J.Howells & I.Neary - Government Policy and Biotechnology in Japan: The Pattern and Impact of Rivalry Among Ministries; M.Tanaka - PART 3: THE MANAGEMENT OF DECLINE - Structural Adjustment of Mature Industries in Japan: Legal Institutions, Industry Associations and Bargaining; M.Young - Industrial Policy Making in Practice: Electoral, Diplomatic and Other Kinds of Adjustment to Crisis in the Japanese Shipbuilding Industry; R.Boyd & S.Nagamori - PART 4: REGULATION OF INDUSTRY: RESHAPING TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Defence Interests and United States Policy for Telecommunications; M.Edmonds - Communities, Communications and Change: The Dialectic of Development in US Telecommunications; K.Morgan & D.Pitt - Re-regulation, Competition and New Industries in Japanese Telecommunications; I.Gow - The 'Enhancement' of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to Meet the Challenge of Telecommunications Innovation; M.Muramatsu - PART 5: CONCLUSIONS - Conclusion: Policy Issues and Policy Networks; S.Wilks & M.Wright - Index