Background / Jennifer Amyx, Peter Drysdale
Electoral pressures for change: the effect of political reform / J.A.A. Stockwin
The dynamics of coalition politics in Japan / Aurelia George Mulgan
The ministry of finance and the Bank of Japan at the crossroads / Jennifer Amyx
The big bang financial systems reforms: implications for corporate governance / Horiuchi Akiyoshi
A changing ministry of international trade and industry / Kohno Masura
Reform and continuity in Japan's shingikai deliberation councils / Gregory W. Noble
Re-regulating Japanese transactions: the competition law dimension / Veronica Taylor
Japanese women and the 'new' administrative state / Leon Wolff
Agricultural policy and agricultural policymaking: perpetuating the status quo / Aurelia George Mulgan.