Japan: Beyond the End of History

Introduction 1 Policymaking in an economic superpower 2 Understanding the new Japan: Some ideological pointers PART I THE POLITICS Policymakers and the Japanese political system 3 Why the centre holds 4 Gentlemen and players in the policy contest; The Japanese state at work 5 Four policy lessons from the 1980s 6 The Ministry of Finance and the Japanese miracle 7 Japanese industrial policy: The great debate 8 Politics and policies since the bubble PART II THE PHILOSOPHY The foundations of the Japanese approach 9 A Japanese lesson: Language and nationalism 10 Japan, Germany and the alternative tradition in modern public policy 11 Making history: Japan’s grand narrative and the policymaker; Theories and controversies 12 The revolutionary 1980s and the rise of Japanese public policy studies 13 Yellow Athena: The Japanese model and ‘The End of History’ 14 Japanese public policy as foreign policy: A post-war revolution? 15 Unblinking politics: McCarthyism, grand theory and wild Empiricism; Coda, 16 The receding roar: Last thoughts on the Japanese miracle