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The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy

Part of the Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Book Series

Editors: Mulgan, Aurelia George; Honma, Masayoshi

DOI: 10.1057/9781137414564

ISBN: 978-1-349-57734-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 12, 2015

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Understanding Japanese Trade Policy: A Political Economy Perspective

Mulgan, Aurelia George

Pages: 1 –40

[The purpose of this book is to identify the main political and economic forces that have helped to shape Japanese trade policy in the postwar period. The individual chapters focus on different aspects of this story although they share a broad political economy perspective and common underlying...
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Postwar Japanese Trade Policy: A Shift from Multilateral GATT/WTO to Bilateral/Regional FTA Regimes

Urata, Shujiro

Pages: 41 –70

[In the 70 years since the end of World War II (WWII), the Japanese economy and the international economic environment have changed greatly. The Japanese economy recovered from wartime destruction, and from the latter half of the 1950s through the 1970s, achieved high levels of growth, which...
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The Political Economy of Japanese Agricultural Trade Negotiations

Yamashita, Kazuhito

Pages: 71 –93

[Japan consistently adopted defensive positions in negotiations on agricultural market access under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO). In the GATT Uruguay Round (UR) agricultural trade negotiations, Japan resisted tariffication (conversion from...
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The TPP and Agricultural Reform in Japan

Honma, Masayoshi

Pages: 94 –122

[Japanese agriculture is under pressure for structural reform to cope with the globalisation of the Japanese economy. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have put Japan’s high tariff rates on some politically sensitive agricultural products into the spotlight, with participating...
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To TPP or Not TPP: Interest Groups and Trade Policy

Mulgan, Aurelia George

Pages: 123 –156

[Groups representing sectoral interests are some of the most important political actors in the TPP debate in Japan, which is very public, politicised and polarised. This chapter identifies the organisations that are participating in this debate, outlining their principal policy claims and...
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The Impact of Trade Policy on Japanese Trade and Investment

Farrell, Roger

Pages: 157 –174

[Japan’s economic links with the world economy have been significantly influenced by trade policy since the postwar period when Japan benefited from General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO)-led waves of trade liberalisation. As trade barriers fell, Japanese...
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International Production Networks and Economic Diplomacy in Japan

Kimura, Fukunari

Pages: 175 –195

[International production networks, or the 2nd unbundling,1 have produced a new international division of labour and pattern of international trade since the mid-1980s. East Asia, including Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, has been a forerunner of a new international division of labour in the...
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Locating Japanese Trade Policy in an Evolving Regional Context

Yoshimatsu, Hidetaka

Pages: 196 –221

[International trade has been a crucial driver of Japan’s economy over a long period. Indeed, Japan has a relatively large domestic market with a population of 128 million, which reduces its need to rely on external markets.1 However, Japan’s economic strength has been heavily dependent on four...

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