This book analyzes issues related to economic challenges for Japan’s regional revitalization. Japan’s responses to such … challenges and to the problem of an aging population are of deep interest to the nations outside of Japan. This book brings … together 19 articles contributed by Japan’s leading scholars, originally prepared for an online policy information portal …

economic concerns in Japan's public sector. These include the macroeconomic incidence of fiscal decentralization, dependence on … government bonds for covering fiscal deficits, and social security reform. In analyzing Japan's underperforming public sector …, the authors develop and recommend policy solutions aimed at achieving Japan's growth potential, improving the quality of …