Japan's nuclear crisis: the routes to responsibility
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 248 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780230354920 |
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| adam_text | Titel: Japan s nuclear crisis
Autor: Carpenter, Susan
Jahr: 2012
Contents
Timeline ix
Annual Average Exchange Rates xiv
Acronyms and Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
Consequences of the nuclear crisis: agriculture, fisheries 8
Consequences of the nuclear crisis: Fukushima residents 11
Consequences of the nuclear crisis: Fukushima Daiichi workers 12
Information-sharing is not a buzz-word in
government agencies 14
Institutional reforms postponed 15
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant: an impending disaster 17
Where does the buck stop? 20
The same old story 23
The routes to responsibility 25
Perceptions of Japan Inc.: busting myths 25
1 Independent Administrative Institutions: In Name Only 28
The push for reforms: the perfect opportunity 31
Reforms according to Koizumi: FILP 35
Reforms according to Koizumi: enthusiastic support
from the opposition 36
The privatization of the Japan Highway Corporation:
unenthusiastic support from the LDP and the ministries 38
Special Corporations: consequences of amakudari 40
The liquidation of a failed Special Corporation: Government
Housing and Loan Guarantee Corporation 41
The image of reform: Urban Development Corporation 42
The image of reform: Japan National Oil Corporation 42
The image of reform: Japan External Trade Organization 43
Manipulation of operations to maintain JETRO 44
The disguise: convincing the Japanese media 46
The disguise: convincing the American media 48
The disguise: convincing Koizumi 48
JETRO s core focus : sowing the seeds of the ministry 49
Holding on to a good thing 50
2 Amakudari in the Ministries IAIs, Public Corporations,
Research Institutes and Affiliated Agencies:
the Insidious Side 52
No reforms in sight 54
Manifestations of amakudari: IAI/public corporations 56
Issues arising in research institutes 58
A consequence of amakudari in IAIs: bid-rigging 60
A consequence of amakudari in an IAI: incompetent
management of the Social Insurance Agency 61
Scandal and super-amakudari in a government corporation:
Japan Post 65
Everything old is new again 69
3 Information-Sharing is Not a Buzz-Word in Japan:
Press Clubs Insulate an Insular Political Economy 71
Press clubs: information cartels control the flow of information 72
The whole truth and nothing but the truth 76
Press clubs and Japan Inc. 78
4 Elements Intrinsic to Japan s Political Economy:
Interlocking Interests between an Elite Bureaucracy
and Big Business 79
Power struggle between politicians and bureaucrats 81
The origins of the power of the bureaucracy and
government links with big business 84
The bureaucracy s power defined 87
Collaboration between the bureaucracy and big business:
ministerial guidance and mercantilism (1898-1919) 88
Japan s expansion in East Asia, outward investment and the
benefits to big business 89
Recession: the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
and industrial rationalization 92
The alliance between MCI and big business: the birth of
administrative guidance 94
The Manchurian Incident 95
The Second World War: the intensification
of ministerial powers 97
Enduring changes: corporate culture 98
Reverse reforms and Japan Inc. 98
Small shock, big shock: nuclear energy as a
national priority 103
Mechanisms to implement guidance 105
5 The DNA of Japan s Post-war Political System:
Ultra-conservative to the Core 108
The 1955 system : the moneymen, Nobusuke
Kishi/Kakuei Tanaka (1950-76) 112
Nobusuke Kishi 112
Kakuei Tanaka: the godfather of pork-barrel patronage 114
Shin Kanemaru: post-Tanaka moneyman 117
Right-wing ultra-conservative politics: in the family domain 119
Junichiro Koizumi 119
Shinzo Abe 120
Yasuo Fukuda 123
Taro Aso 124
Yukio Hatoyama 126
Ichiro Ozawa: protege of Tanaka and Kanemaru 127
The Recruit scandal: interpersonal networks of politicians,
bureaucrats and big business 130
The Ministry of Defense scandal: interpersonal networks of
politicians, bureaucrats and big business 132
The right-wing ultraconservative mind-set continues
Yoshihiko Noda (30 August 2011-) 136
Seiji Maehara 137
Shin taro Ishihara: post-earthquake neo-nationalism 139
Ishihara s ardent admirers: Toru Hashimoto and the Osaka
Restoration Group 141
6 Pork-Barrel Patronage in the Prefectures:
the Proliferation of Nuclear Power Plants 143
Pushing nuclear in needy prefectures 147
Fukushima Prefecture 150
Aomori Prefecture 151
Aomori s no. 1 industry: nuclear power 152
The princes of pork-barrel patronage: Kakuei
Tanaka and Noboru Takeshita 157
The godfather 157
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant:
the art of pork-barrel patronage 159
The town that can t say no! 161
Noboru Takeshita: bringing home the bacon 163
Shimane Nuclear Power Plant: public works
perpetuate more public works 165
Ehime Prefecture: the Takeshita connection 165
Kato s connections to MEXT and METI: textbook
andMOX 168
Ikata Nuclear Power Plant: money, money, money 169
The price of pork-barrel patronage 170
The power of money 172
The power of the state 175
7 Japan s Nuclear Crisis: the Routes to Responsibility 180
JOYO and FUGEN: trial and error 182
MONJU: more trials and errors 182
Mihama: still more errors 184
Takahama: more errors but more MOX 185
Tokai-mura 185
The blame game 187
Splitting NISA from METI: the image of reform 190
NISA: the tip of METI s nuclear tail 192
METI s nuclear progeny: IAIs, industrial associations
and research institutes 193
The end of the line: IAIs, at the very heart of government 194
METI: the creative ministry: the route to the renewable
energy industrial sector 196
Don t blame the bureaucrats, blame the system! 197
8 The Japan System: Indestructible but Destructive 199
Japan s first Tost decade 200
The first lost decade : institutional paralysis 201
Japan s second lost decade: institutional paralysis 202
Earthquake-tsunami and nuclear crisis: impact on
industrial production 205
Impact on sovereign debt: out-of-sight, out-of-mind 210
Political bickering: impact on rapid recovery 212
Too little too late? 214
Japan Inc. is alive and well 218
Back to basics: a variation on the 1955 theme 219
Notes 223
Select Bibliography 234
Index 236
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