This study provides up-to-date coverage of the most important domestic and external political and economic influences on Japanese trade policy, as well as the evolutionary dynamics of that policy in the post-war period.

Autorentext
Roger Farrell, Sydney University and the Australian National University, Australia Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Japan Shujiro Urata, Waseda University, Japan Kazuhito Yamashita, Canon Institute for Global Studies, Japan Hidetaka Yoshimatsu, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan

Inhalt

1. Understanding Japanese Trade Policy: A Political Economy Perspective; Aurelia George Mulgan
2. Postwar Japanese Trade Policy: A Shift from Multilateral GATT/WTO to Bilateral/Regional FTA Regimes; Shujiro Urata
3. The Political Economy of Japanese Agricultural Trade Negotiations; Kazuhito Yamashita
4. The TPP and Agricultural Reform in Japan; Masayoshi Honma
5. To TPP or Not TPP: Interest Groups and Japanese Trade Policy; Aurelia George Mulgan
6. The Impact of Trade Policy on Japanese Trade and Investment; Roger Farrell
7. International Production Networks and Economic Diplomacy in Japan, Fukunari Kimura
8. Locating Japanese Trade Policy in an Evolving Regional Context ; Hidetaka Yoshimatsu