The contributors to this book, from the US and Japan, explore the main issues involved in the international trade …, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan and provide guidance to policymakers … for measures to help overcome Japan's economic stagnation since the early 1990s. The book is divided into three parts …

system and private savings in Italy -- Do the elderly dissave in Japan? -- On robust monetary policy -- The euro and the … account -- Land prices and business fixed investment in Japan -- Rationality, behavior and switching idiosyncracies in the …

decentralised rule or inter state competition. The same is true for Japan. If the Hume-Kant hypothesis is correct, it should also … -- 4. Lessons from the history of Imperial China -- 5. Advantages of centralized and decentralized rule in Japan -- 6 …

1. Introduction to development in China, India and Japan -- 2. Development theory -- 3. An Asian leader : Japan … trajectory -- 6. Poverty and inequality in China, India and Japan -- 7. urbanization and migration -- 8. Demographics, education …, health and labor -- 9. The impact of development on the environment -- 10. Trade in China, India and Japan -- 11. Economic …