Introduction : confronting the paradox -- Paradox and Japanese public policy -- The circles-of-compensation concept -- The political economy of connectedness -- Finance -- Land and housing -- Food supply -- Energy -- Transportation -- Communications -- Japan's domestic circles and the broader...

Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector? In addressing this question, Kent Calder's richly detailed study offers a distinctive reinterpretation of Japanese government-business relations. Calder challenges popular opinion to...