high prices and discourage imports into Japanese markets. The paper also argues that Japan's weak anti …-wheeling markets. Liberal reformist measures in Japan are animportant corrective and supplement to mercantilist policy, but are not … likely tofundamentally transform Japan's political-economic system …

channels-in Japan known as distribution keiretsu- are more likely than others to be headed by a primary wholesaler that is … that impediments to inward foreign direct investment still existed in Japan in 1997, our year of observation …