Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime

Aurelia George Mulgan

Nov 2012 · Routledge

About this ebook

Written by the world’s leading expert in the field, this book examines the evolution of Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period, focusing particularly from the 1970s onwards when both domestic and external pressures for reform began to intensify.

The author explains how the MAFF has safeguarded their institutional capacity to intervene by accommodating both public interest in agricultural policy reform alongside the interests of government in maintaining agricultural support and protection. The book provides a major reinterpretation of agricultural policy, examining how the MAFF’s role as an ‘intervention maximiser’ has been redefined in the face of continued bureaucratic involvement. Making available in English for the first time Japanese policy changes in the post-war period, the book will appeal to political economy specialists and political scientists, and those with an interest in Japanese politics and bureaucratic institutions.

About the author

Aurelia George Mulgan is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia. She has published widely in the area of Japanese politics and is the author of The Politics of Agriculture in Japan (Routledge, 2000), Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the politics of economic reform (2002) and Japan’s Interventionist State (Routledge, 2005).