List of Tables - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; S.Wilks & M.Wright - PART 1: CONTEXT - The Comparative Context of Japanese Political Economy; S.Wilks & M.Wright - The Japanese Bureaucracy in the Industrial Policy Process; S.Wilks & M.Wright - PART 2: THE PROMOTION OF NEW INDUSTRIES - Government-Industry Relations in a Dual Regulatory Scheme: Engineering Research Associations as Policy Instruments; D.Ito - Science and Technology Policy in Japan: The Pharmaceutical Industry and New Technology; J.Howells & I.Neary - Government Policy and Biotechnology in Japan: The Pattern and Impact of Rivalry Among Ministries; M.Tanaka - PART 3: THE MANAGEMENT OF DECLINE - Structural Adjustment of Mature Industries in Japan: Legal Institutions, Industry Associations and Bargaining; M.Young - Industrial Policy Making in Practice: Electoral, Diplomatic and Other Kinds of Adjustment to Crisis in the Japanese Shipbuilding Industry; R.Boyd & S.Nagamori - PART 4: REGULATION OF INDUSTRY: RESHAPING TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Defence Interests and United States Policy for Telecommunications; M.Edmonds - Communities, Communications and Change: The Dialectic of Development in US Telecommunications; K.Morgan & D.Pitt - Re-regulation, Competition and New Industries in Japanese Telecommunications; I.Gow - The 'Enhancement' of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to Meet the Challenge of Telecommunications Innovation; M.Muramatsu - PART 5: CONCLUSIONS - Conclusion: Policy Issues and Policy Networks; S.Wilks & M.Wright - Index