1. David Asher, “What Became of the Japanese ‘Miracle,’” Orbis 40, no. 2 (1996): 215–234.
2. Aurelia George Mulgan, Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform (Canberra, Australia: Asia Pacific Press, 2002 ).
3. Edward Lincoln, Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic reform ( Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001 ).
4. Andrew Dewit and Sven Steinmo show how redistribution is accomplished through government spending in Japan. See Andrew Dewit and Sven Steinmo, “The Political Economy of Taxes and Redistribution in Japan.” Social Science Japan Journal 5, no. 2 (2002): 159–178.
5. Richard J. Samuels, The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective ( Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987 ), 8–9.