Product Description: Business and Politics in Japan is a much-needed, up-to-date analysis of the major business leaders, firms, and politicians in Japan. James Babb covers all key areas in depth: policy-making, business organization, political finance, and global pressures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: TANAKAKakuei Tanaka was the most powerful politician in Japan for nearly two decades, and his followers have dominated Japanese politics for most of the country's recent history. Implicated in scandal from the beginning of his career, he was forced from office under a cloud of suspicion and later convicted of bribery, but Tanaka continued to control Japan from behind the scenes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)