chapter Introduction / GLENN D. HOOK -- part PART I Sites of governance -- chapter 1 Global governance, the G7/8 summit and Japan / HUGO DOBSON -- chapter 2 Japan's role in emerging East Asian governance: regional and national implications / GLENN D. HOOK -- chapter 3 Governance, democracy and the political economy of the Japanese state / J. A. A. STOCKWIN -- chapter 4 Local governance: the role of referenda and the rise of independent governors / LAM PENG ER -- chapter 5 Governance, globalization and the Japanese nancial system: resistance or restructuring? / PHILIP G. CERNY -- chapter 6 Koizumi's robust policy: governance, the Japanese welfare employment regime and comparative gender studies / OSAWA MARI -- part Part II Issues of governance -- chapter 7 Japan and global environmental governance / MIRANDA A. SCHREURS -- chapter 8 Governance, Asian migrants and the role of civil society / HATSUSE RYU HEI -- chapter 9 Corruption and governance in Japan / J. BABB -- chapter 10 Whose problem? Japan's homeless people as an issue of local and central governance / TOM GILL -- chapter 11 The political economy of Japanese corporate governance: a metaphor for capitalist rationalization / HASEGAWA HARUKIYO -- chapter 12 Governance through the family: the political function of the domestic in Japan / TAKEDA HIROKO.