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.
- ISBN13 9781403916556
- Publish Date 29 August 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2003 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English