caa a22 4500 386312311 CHVBK 20180307111552.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020818300034019 doi S0020818300034019 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020818300034019 Kume Ikuo Associate Professor of Public Administration at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. Changing relations among the government, labor, and business in Japan after the oil crisis [Elektronische Daten] [Ikuo Kume] Many scholars argue that labor is excluded from Japan's political system. However, since the 1970s, labor has become considerably influential in the policymaking process in Japan. The oil crisis of 1973 and the Shuntou wage bargaining of 1975 have made labor, especially private-sector unions, modest in their wage demands, but at the same time these events have made labor participate actively in the policymaking process in order to maintain employment and seek some benefits from the government. This article demonstrates that Japan's increasing export-dependence and tradeoffs between wage increases on the one hand, and inflation and unemployment on the other in the 1970s, have driven labor to this new, more active role in policymaking, while the necessity for the governing Liberal Democratic party to seek a new constituency has enabled labor to achieve some success in this new role. This implies that Japan's political system has changed its nature since the 1970s; its political process has become more pluralistic with labor's participation within the existing political system. Copyright © The IO Foundation 1988 International Organization Cambridge University Press 42/4(1988), 659-687 0020-8183 42:4<659 1988 42 INO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300034019 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300034019 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kume Ikuo Associate Professor of Public Administration at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Organization Cambridge University Press 42/4(1988), 659-687 0020-8183 42:4<659 1988 42 INO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge