Editing Neoliberalism (section)

==== Japan ====
{{See also|Developmental state}}
Neoliberal policies were at the core of the leading party in Japan, the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] (LDP), after 1980. These policies had the effect of abandoning the traditional rural base and emphasizing the central importance of the Tokyo industrial-economic region.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tsukamoto |first1=Takashi |year=2012 |title=Neoliberalization of the developmental state: Tokyo's bottom-up politics and state rescaling in Japan |journal=[[International Journal of Urban and Regional Research]] |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=71–89 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011.01057.x}}</ref> Neoliberal proposals for Japan's agricultural sector called for reducing state intervention, ending the protection of high prices for rice and other farm products, and exposing farmers to the global market. The 1993 [[Uruguay Round]] of the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] negotiations opened up the rice market. Neoconservative leaders called for the enlargement, diversification, intensification, and corporatization of the farms receiving government subsidies. In 2006, the ruling LDP decided to no longer protect small farmers with subsidies. Small operators saw this as favoritism towards big corporate agriculture and reacted politically by supporting the [[Democratic Party of Japan]] (DPJ), helping to defeat the LDP in nationwide elections.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miyake |first1=Yoshitaka |year=2016 |title=Neoliberal Agricultural Policies and Farmers' Political Power in Japan |journal=Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=216–239 |doi=10.1353/pcg.2016.0012 |s2cid=157682364}}</ref>