Contested Governance in Japan: Sites and IssuesGlenn D. Hook 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. |
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... NGO NIMBY NPO NTT OAS ODA OECD OPEC PARC R&D ROE SDP SEC Global System for Mobile Communications human resource management International Monetary Fund international political economy Initial Public Offering international relations ...
... NGO NIMBY NPO NTT OAS ODA OECD OPEC PARC R&D ROE SDP SEC Global System for Mobile Communications human resource management International Monetary Fund international political economy Initial Public Offering international relations ...
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... non-governmental organizations (NGO), non-profit organizations, corporations and local citizens (Yorimoto 2004: 61). In this sense, gabanansu is being employed in order to capture this wider meaning of the term, although kigyo ̄ to ̄chi ...
... non-governmental organizations (NGO), non-profit organizations, corporations and local citizens (Yorimoto 2004: 61). In this sense, gabanansu is being employed in order to capture this wider meaning of the term, although kigyo ̄ to ̄chi ...
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... NGOs, it has similarly brought issues of East Asian governance to the attention of the G7/8, as in the discussions revolving around the resolution of the Cambodian conflict during the 1980s. The next chapter by Hook moves down a level ...
... NGOs, it has similarly brought issues of East Asian governance to the attention of the G7/8, as in the discussions revolving around the resolution of the Cambodian conflict during the 1980s. The next chapter by Hook moves down a level ...
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Contents
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Part 1 Sites of governance | 15 |
1 Global governance the G78 summit and Japan | 17 |
2 Japans role in emerging East Asian governance | 36 |
3 Governance democracy and the political economy of the Japanese state | 54 |
4 Local governance | 71 |
5 Governance globalization and the Japanese nancial system | 90 |
6 Koizumis robust policy | 111 |
7 Japan and global environmental governance | 133 |
8 Governance Asian migrants and the role of civil society | 152 |
9 Corruption and governance in Japan | 174 |
10 Whose problem? | 192 |
11 The political economy of Japanese corporate governance | 211 |
12 Governance through the family | 233 |
Index | 253 |
Part II Issues of governance | 131 |
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