Policymaking in Japan
Subtitle: defining the role of politicians
By: edited by Gerald L. Curtis.
Contributors: Curtis, Gerald L.; Nihon Kokusai Kōryū Sentā.
Publisher: Japan Center for International Exchange; distributed outside Japan by the Brookings Institution Press and Kinokuniya Company Ltd.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Political planning -- Japan -- Congresses.; Political culture -- Japan -- Congresses.; Japan -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Defining the role of politicians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"[R]esult of a study project on 'The Future of  Governance and the Role of Politicians'...The chapters in this volume are written by members of the [Japanese] Diet...and were first presented as papers at the Global ThinkNet Tokyo Conference held in Japan in November 2001.  This publication is a sequel to several publications soming out of a series of projects under the core theme of "Globalization, Governance, and Civil Society...".
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Yamamoto Tadashi; title: Politicians and bureaucrats : what's wrong and what's to be done / Gerald L. Curtis; title: The successful handling of the financial crisis / Nemoto Takumi; title: The finance Diet of 1998 / Furukawa Motohisa; title: Information technology : new policy issues and the role of politicians / Itō Tatsuya; title: Toward a fundamental review of public works / Maehara Seiji; title: New policy challenges in education / Hase Hiroshi; title: Reform of corporate legislation / Ueda Isamu.