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  • 14 - Japanese Agricultural Reform under Abenomics

  • from Part IV - Third Arrow of Abenomics
  • Edited by Takeo Hoshi, University of Tokyo, Phillip Y. Lipscy, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms
    Published online:
    05 February 2021
    Print publication:
    25 February 2021, pp 421-444

  • Summary

    After 2012, Prime Minister Abe prioritized agricultural reform as a signature objective of the structural reform, or “third arrow,” component of Abenomics. But while the Abe reforms have enhanced competitive market signals in the farm sector and accelerated the long-term political decline of conservative LDP politicians, farm bureaucrats, and Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA) – the “farm lobby” – in the policy process, the lobby remains a significant obstacle to more sweeping change. To illustrate these points and the ongoing tug-of-war between neoliberal reformers and the farm lobby, this chapter explores some of the successes and failures of the government’s agricultural agenda against the backdrop of a deepening demographic and economic crisis in the countryside.