Higo, Masahiro; Nishimura, Kiyohiko; Sakuragawa, Yukie - 2019
This paper describes the statistics reforms in Japan, especially in regard to gross domestic product and related … statistics, that were meant to identify and then rectify the problems in Japanese government statistics. The paper then explains … the recent revelation of serious errors in vital wage statistics caused by deplorable mismanagement in the Ministry of …