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Regulatory Capture in Public Procurement: Evidence from Revolving Door Bureaucrats in Japan |
K Asai , K Kawai, J Nakabayashi |
2016 |
(abstract not available) |
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Journal Article |
The Failure of the Japanese" Big Bang": Bureaucracy -Driven Reforms and Politician Intervention |
I Okamoto |
2005 |
The "financial big bang" of the late 1990s strove to fundamentally liberalize the Japanese financial system and create a free, fair, and global financial market. However, as is now evident from the stagnation of the stock market and the bad debt problems of Japanese banks, those reforms have not accomplished their desired ends. The question is: Why? This article attributes the failure of the big bang to the inability of the reforms to go beyond liberalizing the securities industry by challenging the government's protection of the banking sector, and to the government's haphazard intervention in the stock market. The article concludes that these are all problems of "financial gover-nance," that is, the reforms were "bottom-up," implemented at the initiative of the Securities Bureau of the Ministry of Finance (MOF), and politicians intervened in financial administration after the MOF was broken up. |
1 |
Journal Article |
The paradox of economic crime in Japan: The thalidomide scourge, the Lockheed scandal, and endemic political corruption |
H Pontell, G Geis |
2007 |
(abstract not available) |
1 |
Journal Article |
The Saitama Saturday Club Case: Political Meddling, Public Opinion, and Antitrust Enforcement in Japan at a Turning Point |
S Vande Walle |
2012 |
Abstract
This paper tells the story of the Saitama Saturday Club case and how it changed antitrust enforcement in Japan. Although the case is often cited as an example of failed antitrust enforcement, in fact, the case had a lasting and positive impact in many unexpected ways.
The case opposed Japan’s antitrust enforcement agency against the country’s mighty construction industry. For years, the construction companies had rigged bids for thousands of public works in Saitama Prefecture, in clear violation of Japan’s Antimonopoly Act. Yet they escaped relatively scot-free, as the Japan Fair Trade Commission decided not to bring criminal charges and instead handled the case with a trifle administrative penalty.
But this docile treatment triggered a public backlash. Angry citizens sued the bid-riggers for damages, an unprecedented move that would subsequently be replicated in over eighty other cases throughout Japan. More broadly, the case heightened public awareness of the pernicious nature of bid-rigging and galvanized popular support for more robust antitrust enforcement. In turn, this support enabled the Japan Fair Trade Commission to move against entrenched interests and, in the years that followed, gradually step up enforcement, an evolution that continues to this day. In this sense, the Saitama Saturday Club case constituted a turning point for antitrust enforcement in Japan. |
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Journal Article |
Accounting Fraud at Japanese Companies |
SK Dutta, RA Lawson |
2018 |
Abstract
Japanese companies in the 1980s were looked upon as the models for business innovation. Admired by the rest of the world for manufacturing efficiency and business strategy, Japanese companies were renowned for pioneering management techniques such as kaizen, target costing, and flexible manufacturing. Yet in recent years, the Japanese economy has experienced a spate of corporate scandals. Facing business setbacks, companies altered product data, hid losses, and even resorted to issuing misleading financial reports. Shareholder value was damaged, and consumers were outraged. What changed, and how could these scandals have been avoided? |
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Journal Article |
The Study of Organization of Regulating Bid - Rigging of Japan and Referenceto China [J] |
Y WANG, J WU |
2006 |
In Japan,as a kind of unreasonable restraints of trade,namely cartel,bid-rigging is regulated by Prohibition of Private Monopolization Act.Fair Trade Commission,as the organization of the law,regulatesconspirebidding and plays an important role. In addition to possessing the administrative power,the Fair TradeCommission still possesses the precise judicature and legislative power,and independentlyexercisesthe power.China should sets up the unified and centralisedorganizationto regulate bid-riggingdue to Japan's experiences. |
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Journal Article |
Agents of Influence: How Japan's Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America's Political and Economic System by Pat Choate |
VV Fic |
1991 |
(abstract not available) |
0 |
Journal Article |
Chapter 2 Japan |
JST Quah |
2011 |
The Lockheed scandal was exposed during the 4 February 1976 hearings of the Sub-Committee on Multinational Corporations of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. These hearings revealed that Lockheed Aircraft Corporation paid illegal payments in several countries including Japan to promote the sale of its planes to prevent bankruptcy. The Securities Exchange Commission obtained documents showing that Lockheed paid more than US$10 million to Yoshio Kodama, a “fixer” and Lockheed's secret representative, and the Marubeni Corporation, which was Lockheed's agent in Japan since 1959. During the same hearings on 6 February, A. Carl Kotchian, vice president of Lockheed, informed the committee that a senior Japanese government official received US$2 million from Marubeni and that his company relied on Kenji Osano, a close associate of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, as an intermediary in its efforts to sell 21 Lockheed's L-1001 Tristar airbuses to All Nippon Airways (ANA) (Macdougall, 1988, pp. 193–195). |
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Comparative Study on the Crime of Bribery Punishment Set in Japan and South Korea |
Y Xueting |
2013 |
Bribes Crime, Legal Punishment,Setting up Pattern, setting up gist Bribes crime harms the clean of civil servant's duty behavior,the credibility and prestige on the governmental management.As the most important members states in Eastern Asia,the three states share similarity on culture background.Japan and Korea,two developed countries of Continental legal system,provide much successful experience and theory research.The comparative study,analysis,revelatory information of the three counties on legislative situation of bribes crime will be be beneficial to the improvement of China related system. |
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Journal Article |
Cultural Aspects of Gift Giving : A Comparative Analysis of the Significance of Gift Giving in the US and Japan |
N Hanna, T Srivastava |
1997 |
This paper explores gift giving from a global business perspective by comparing and contrasting the nature of gift giving in Japan and the United States. The study discusses the theoretical and managerial relevance of the observed differences in the two societies and highlights the social, personal, and economic significance of gift giving. |
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Curbing Corruption Through Tertiary Education in Indonesia and Japan. |
Assegaf, A. |
2018 |
Corruption has become a global issue, whereas almost every country, whatever tough
or slight it is, got to fight against it. It means that none of single country in the world
is corruption free. This study analyzes anti-corruption policies and educational
strategies enforced by Indonesian and Japanese Government. Data was collected
through documentation and literature review, and to some extent, cultural behaviors
of both countries were observed. This study used the theory of legal system by
Lawrence M Friedman as an analysis method. The main research questions are: first,
how are the Government’s policies enacted to eradicate corruption in Indonesia and
Japan? Second, what educational strategies are implemented by both countries for
combating corruption? Third, how Islamic perspective deals with anti-corruption
practices? The research findings indicate several points: firstly, Indonesia has very
complex social and cultural background if compared to Japan. Indeed Indonesia has
some weaknesses such as weak of economic conditions, high levels of poverty, lack of
political will, weak of cultural order, lack of honest and discipline attitudes, and lack
of law enforcement. Indonesia's anti-corruption policies enforced today is Act
Number 31 of 1999, while Japan enacted several interrelated law compiled in Penal
Codes (PC). Secondly, the implementation strategy for anti-corruption education in
Indonesia is preventive, detective and repressive strategies. Meanwhile, Japan
applies integrated strategies in social, political, economic, cultural, and education
dimension. It is expected that the results of this study can contribute to the prevention
and eradication of corruption in Indonesia more comprehensively, not only through
legal means but education, especially higher education through internalization of
moral and Islamic values of anti-corruption in all aspects of live. |
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Distribution's Return Trip: Two Hollywood Studios, Money, and Japan, 1921–1941 |
E Hoyt |
2015 |
(abstract not available) |
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Journal Article |
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE LDP IN JAPAN: WHAT HAPPENED? |
H Baldvinsson |
2009 |
This article explores the reason why the LDP has stayed so long in power and why it ultimately fell out. It begins by giving an overview of the political situation in Japan in the past decades. It then proceeds to explain the main theories on why the LDP stayed so long in power and maintains that the main contributing factor has been a weak opposition. Finally it discusses how the new party has distinguished itself from former opposition parties and how and why the LDP had failed to meet that challenge. |
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The Social Aspects of Gift Exchange in Japan |
T Guerin |
1998 |
(abstract not available) |
0 |