Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes chapters on global governance, local policy-making, democracy, environmental governance, the Japanese financial system, corruption, the family and corporate governance.
Author(s): Glenn Hook
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 288
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 16
Note on the text......Page 18
Abbreviations......Page 20
Glossary......Page 24
Introduction......Page 26
Part 1 Sites of governance......Page 40
1 Global governance, the G7/8 summit and Japan......Page 42
2 Japan’s role in emerging East Asian governance......Page 61
3 Governance, democracy and the political economy of the Japanese state......Page 79
4 Local governance......Page 96
5 Governance, globalization and the Japanese .nancial system......Page 115
6 Koizumi’s ‘robust policy’......Page 136
Part II Issues of governance......Page 156
7 Japan and global environmental governance......Page 158
8 Governance, Asian migrants and the role of civil society......Page 177
9 Corruption and governance in Japan......Page 199
10 Whose problem?......Page 217
11 The political economy of Japanese ‘corporate governance’......Page 236
12 Governance through the family......Page 258
Index......Page 278
