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This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations (public corporations, supported primarily with public funding from a state-run banking agency) in order to intensify their administrative power over industries and local governments and to perpetuate the interests of elite civil servants by facilitating the migration to post-retirement positions in the private sector. The book explains why the existence of these organizations inhibits the Prime Ministers efforts to implement structural reforms.

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SUSAN CARPENTER worked for seven years in an American branch office of the Japan External Trade Organization, a Special Status Corporation. She is currently a Visiting Research Scholar in the School of Management at the University of Edinburgh.

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