| 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 |
| Factions and Political Clientelism |
| • | Candidate Endorsement and Campaign Support |
| • | Political Funds |
| • | Allocation of Posts |
| • | Constituency Service Networks |
| The Construction Tribe |
| • | The Enigma of Japanese Pork |
| • | The Bounties of Credit-Claiming |
| • | Tiptoeing toward Resolution |
| 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 |