The specter of crisis -- A chronology of crisis -- The technocratic possibility -- From crisis to compensation -- Agricultural policy : the wax and wane of rural bias -- Regional policy : periodic power to the periphery -- Small business policy : the confluence of industrial policy and welfare -- Welfare policy : strategic benevolence -- Land use policy : exclusive circles of compensation -- The residual : defense -- Explaining patterns in Japanese public policy -- Appendix I : major innovations in six key Japanese public policy sectors, 1945-1986 -- Appendix II : Japanese House of Representatives General Election results, 1945-1986.