The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in …

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly …

This paper examines the exchange rate pass-through to yen based manufactured import prices of Japan using asymmetric … shown that the recession in Japan in the 1990s has significantly affected the exchange rate passthrough relationship …

-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in … the pre-WWII growth of Japan, Southeast Asia's growth in the 1970s and the 1980s, and its economic crisis in the mid-1990s. …

common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … two major countries in the region, in the arrangement, China and Japan would have centered roles in promoting economic … cooperation in East Asia. However, it is practically impossible to decide either China or Japan is capable of taking the …

technique of business cycle accounting (BCA) and some new evidence from Japan. BCA technique enables us to model the economy as … Japan during the period 1980 to 2000, I find that though technology shocks play an important role in propagating market …

There is no debate amongst economists that Japan performed poorly during the1990s. This can be seen in falling growth … 1990s. So, any model that tries to focus on what went wrong in Japan in 1990s would do well to focus on frictions on …