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100			_aOcampo, Romeo B.
245			_aAdministrative and policymaking reforms in Japan: comparative pointers for the Philippines
260			_c2000
300			_ap.165-92.
362			_aJul-Oct
520			_aThe article describes and analyzes postwar changes in the Japanese state leading up to the 2000-2001 reforms in central policymaking and administrative structure. These reforms would assert the primacy of politicians in Japan's bureaucrat-dominated policymaking and Diet processes, and would streamline and reduce, through mergers, the number of national ministries from 22 to 13. Despite basic cultural and material differences between the two countries, the Japanese experience should inspire the Philippines to seek to strengthen its own bureaucracy and state as a development strategy. The issues involved in this strategy are briefly identified. - Reproduced.
650			_aPolicy making - Japan
650			_aAdministrative reform - Japan
650			_aAdministrative reform
773			_aPhilippine Journal of Public Administration
909			_a57604
999			_c57604 _d57604