Japan's construction lobby and the privatization of highwayrelated public corporations

Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 91-112

  Feldhoff, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203961728     Document Type: Chapter

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