The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Understanding Japanese Trade Policy: A Political Economy Perspective

   • Aurelia George Mulgan

   Pages 1-40

3. Postwar Japanese Trade Policy: A Shift from Multilateral GATT/WTO to Bilateral/Regional FTA Regimes

   • Shujiro Urata

   Pages 41-70

4. The Political Economy of Japanese Agricultural Trade Negotiations

   • Kazuhito Yamashita

   Pages 71-93

5. The TPP and Agricultural Reform in Japan

   • Masayoshi Honma

   Pages 94-122

6. To TPP or Not TPP: Interest Groups and Trade Policy

   • Aurelia George Mulgan

   Pages 123-156

7. The Impact of Trade Policy on Japanese Trade and Investment

   • Roger Farrell

   Pages 157-174

8. International Production Networks and Economic Diplomacy in Japan

   • Fukunari Kimura

   Pages 175-195

9. Locating Japanese Trade Policy in an Evolving Regional Context

   • Hidetaka Yoshimatsu

   Pages 196-221

10. Back Matter

    Pages 223-227

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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.

• Japan
• International Relations
• Political Economy
• Japanese Trade Policy
• Trade
• Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
• Asia-Pacific
• Japanese Foreign Policy
• economy
• foreign policy
• international relations
• Policy
• political economy
• us politics

• University of New South Wales, Australia

  Aurelia George Mulgan

• University of Tokyo, Japan

  Masayoshi Honma

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

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