This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations 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.
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Release
January 01, 2003
ISBN
1349512869
ISBN 13
9781349512867
Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform
This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations 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.