图书目录：    CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE                            Johannes Hirschmeier

PART I                   Politics

  1. The Making of a Prime Minister

                                                       Murakami Hyoe

 2. Parties, Factions, and the Diet

                                                     Hans H. Baerwald

 3. The World of the Zaikai

                                                     Tanaka Yonosuke

 4. The Bureaucracy: Japan's Pool of Leadership

                                               Japan Culture Institute

 5. Case Study: Foreign Policy a la LDP

      (The 1956 Soviet-Japanese Peace Agreement)

                                                  Donald C. Hellmann

PART II                   Economics

  6. "Japan, Inc.": Reality or Facade?

                                                    Namiki Nobuyoshi

  7. Behind the "Made in Japan" Label

                                                      Kozo Yamamura

  8.  Japan's Labor Unions: The Meeting of White and Blue Collar

                                                    Koshiro Kazutoshi

  9. The Unsung Mainstays (1): Small Businesses

                                                        Kiyonari Tadao

10. The Unsung Mainstays (2): Agriculture

                                                        Yamaji Susumu

 11. Case Study: How to Go Bankrupt and Still Stay Afloat (The Ataka Affair)

                                                          Zushi Saburo

       Appendix          

       Bibliography         

       Indox