chapter Introduction -- part Part I Institutional change in theory and practice -- chapter 1 Institutional change in Japan: theories, evidence and re?ections SUMNER L A CROIX AND AKIHIKO KAWAURA -- chapter 2 Institutional change in Meiji Japan: image and reality / JANET HUNTER -- chapter 3 Institutional reform in Japan and Korea: why the difference? / CHUNG H. LEE -- part PART II Japanese institutions: what has changed, what has not, and why -- chapter 4 A lost decade for Japanese corporate governance reform? What has changed, what hasn�t, and why CURTIS J. MILHAUPT -- chapter 5 Japan's economic and nancial stagnation in the 1990s and reluctance to change / THOMAS F. CARGILL -- chapter 6 Japanese lifetime employment: a century's perspective / CHIAKI MORIGUCHI -- chapter 7 The Japanese labor movement and institutional reform / LONNY E. CARLILE -- chapter 8 The changing pattern of Amakudari appointments: the case of regional banks, 1991-2000 / KENJI SUZUKI -- chapter 9 Divorce in Japan: why it happens, why it doesn�t / HIROSHI ONO.