RAMESHWAR TANDON is Research Professor at the International Institute for Special Education, Lucknow, India. For the past several years, he worked with Professor Rao at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore; also with Professor Kishwar Shabbir Khan at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He is author-editor of thirty books for the New World Order series in collaboration with Sir Hans Singer of IDS, Sussex and Neelambar Hatti, Lund University.

• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Japan's Problem in the New Millennium Japanese Financial Deregulation - the 1980s Deregulation and Liberalization Tribulations - the 1990s The Japanese Banking Crisis of the 1990s Big Bang Reform Programme and After Japanese Banking and Finance in the New Millennium The Internalization of the Yen in the New Millenium Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index