Why Japan Can't Reform

SUSAN CARPENTER is a lecturer in International Business and Director of MSc in International Business and Emerging Markets at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She has worked for Japanese businesses and government-supported organizations in Japan and the U.S.A. She published Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy in 2003.

• Foreword Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Why Japan Can't Reform: inside the system PART I: THE SYSTEM Introduction The Development of the System The Elite Bureaucracy: the image of reform Amakudari: the ties that binds the bureaucracy with the private and public sectors and politics Interpersonal Networks in the 'Ruling Triad' PART II INSIDE THE SYSTEM The Elite Bureaucracy: prisoners of the system The Interviews Conclusion Bibliography