This book charts the changes in Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period and looks at the level at which such policy is designed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to protect its own interventionist powers

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The agricultural policy regime in historical perspective; Chapter 3 Agricultural policies from the late 1970s to the late 1980s; Chapter 4 Agricultural policies from the late 1980s to the late 1990s; Chapter 5 Agricultural policies from the late 1990s; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

Aurelia George Mulgan is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia. She has published widely in the area of Japanese politics and is the author of The Politics of Agriculture in Japan (Routledge, 2000), Japan's Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the politics of economic reform (2002) and Japan's Interventionist State (Routledge, 2005).