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Unlocking the Bureaucrat's Kingdom: Deregulation and the Japanese Economy,Used
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Product Description Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by recordbreaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad balance sheets, overproduction, and weak consumer demand. In turn, Japan's faltering fortunes have sent shock waves across Asia, triggering the collapse of economies in South Korea, Thailand, and other Asian countries that followed its model for rapid growth and development. While a growing chorus of Japanese politicians, business leaders, and economic analysts blame the current troubles on the misguided policies of Japan's Ministry of Finance, the root of Japan's malaise lies more fundamentally in the contradictory relationship that first made it an economic powerhouse: the combination of businesses that aggressively compete for profits in the best tradition of free enterprise with a government bureaucracy that controls the economy with a heavy thicket of regulation and guidance. And so far, despite ringing declarations of reform, the entrenched bureaucracy shows little willingness or ability to make the significant reforms that Japan (and its Asian economic disciples) needs to recover. In this book, a crosssection of Japanese, American, and European journalists and authorities in the business, political, and economic sectors examine the problems caused by overregulation, and offer solutions for reshaping the Japanese marketplace. In Part One, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Vice Minister of Finance Eisuke Sakakibara, and some of America's and Japan's leading experts on the Japanese economy map out the long road to regulatory reform. They analyze the postwar origins of today's bureaucracy, current attitudes toward regulation among politicians and the public, and the changes in both policymaking and mind set that must occur to achieve true reform. Part Two focuses on the effects of overregulation, using illuminating case studies involving Japan's financial system, insurance markets, nonprofit industries, and regulatory agencies. It is time, as Japanese politician Ichiro Ozawa once famously put it, for Japan to become a "normal country." This book not only underlines the critical nature of the problem, but explains how it can be solved. About the Author Frank Gibney, author of Japan: The Fragile Superpower (rev. ed., Charles E. Tuttle, 1996), The Pacific Century (Scribner, 1992), and other works, is president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and Vice Chairman of TBSBritannica in Tokyo.
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