| Japan Under Construction |
| Acknowledgments |
| Note on Conventions |
| Introduction |
| One Construction Contractors and the Calculus of Collusion |
| Two Public Works Bureaucrats Under Siege |
| Three The Career Politician and the Phantom Party's Invisible Feet |
| Four Factioneers, Tribalists, and the LDP's Construction Caucus |
| Conclusion Change and Inertia in the Politics of Japanese Public Works |
| Appendix A Chronology of Trade Friction and Scandal in Japanese Construction, 1985–1994 |
| Appendix B Administrative Vice-Ministers of Construction, 1948–1994 |
| Appendix C Construction Ministers, 1955–1994 |
| Appendix D Positional Influence and the Pork Barrel: A Multivariate Regression Model |
| Notes |
| References |
| Index |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | Y |
| • | Z |