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1. Introduction and overview; 2. Economic and political institutions inthe 1970s; 3. The 'high water mark' of the Japanese economy - a 'model' offinancial liberalization: 1980 to 1985; 4. An accident waiting to happen -the bubble economy from 1985 to 1990; 5. Economic and financial distress from1990 to 2001 and the turning point; 6. Why did the economic and financialdistress last so long?; 7. Transition of political institutions in the 1990sand the new century; 8. Political economy of Japan's fiscal program; 9.Koizumi administration's reform in broad perspective: fiscal consolidationand market reform; 10. Japan's corporate governance, labor practices, andcitizens' social and economic life at the beginning of the new century; 11.Japanese political economy in the first decade of the new century.