Local voices, national issues the impact of local initiative in Japanese policy-making - Smith, Sheila A. 1959- (Ann Arbor Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2000)
Local politics in Japan: welcoming the third wave / Ellis S. Krauss -- Information disclosure and the center-local relationship in Japan / Patricia L. Maclachlan -- Same old, same old?: center-local relations in urban redevelopment / Theodore J. Gilman -- Living in harmony: prospects for cooperative local responses to foreign migrants / Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak -- Challenging the national authority: Okinawa prefecture and the U.S. military bases / Sheila A. Smith -- Kan-min relations in local goverment / Patricia G. Steinhoff
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Central-local government relations -- Japan; Local government -- Japan