Japan’s Nuclear Crisis

1. Introduction
Susan Carpenter

2. Independent Administrative Institutions: In Name Only
Susan Carpenter

3.
Amakudari in the Ministries’ IAIs, Public Corporations, Research Institutes and Affiliated Agencies: the Insidious Side
Susan Carpenter

4. ‘Information-Sharing’ is Not a Buzz-Word in Japan: Press Clubs Insulate an Insular Political Economy
Susan Carpenter

5. Elements Intrinsic to Japan’s Political Economy: Interlocking Interests between an Elite Bureaucracy and Big Business
Susan Carpenter

6. The DNA of Japan’s Post-war Political System: Ultra-conservative to the Core
Susan Carpenter

7. Pork-Barrel Patronage in the Prefectures: the Proliferation of Nuclear Power Plants
Susan Carpenter

8. Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: the Routes to Responsibility
Susan Carpenter

9. The Japan System: Indestructible but Destructive
Susan Carpenter

Keywords: Business and Management, International Business, Asian Economics, Asian Culture, International Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Industrial Organization