Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary of abbreviations; Glossary of Japanese terms; Introduction and theoretical background; Background to the recent debate; Internal actors: the Liberal Democratic Party; Internal actors: the bureaucracy; External actors: incorporated interests; External actors: opposition groups; Education reform in the 1970s; Education reform under Nakasone; Final conclusions; Notes; References; Index
Summary
Explaining why the attempts to reform the Japanese educational system have failed, this book argues that the lessons learned from this failure have a wider relevance in the Japanese policy-making process as a whole
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-311) and index
