particular reference to China and Japan assuming 'regional leader actor' roles. Key issues discussed by the list of distinguished … contributors include: the extent to which there is an East Asian region to lead, China-Japan relations, different aspects of Japan … region, how China and Japan have explored paths of regional leadership through certain regional and multilateral …

1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor … supply of the elderly and females -- 3. Labor force ageing and economic growth in Japan -- 4. Ageing and elderly care in an … society and the choice of Japan : migration, FDI and trade liberalization -- 7. Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative …

Japanese economy / Donald W. Katzner -- The cause of Japan's recession and the lessons for the world / Richard A. Werner … -- Transnational monopoly capitalism, the J-mode firm and industrial 'hollowing out' in Japan / Keith Cowling, Philip. R. Tomlinson … for reform / Terutomo Ozawa -- Kūdōka, restructuring and possibilities for industrial policy in Japan / David Bailey …

Analysing the USA and Japan from the late 19th century to the present day, the book provides an accessible synthesis of …1. Introduction -- 2. Organizational innovations from the 1860s in the USA and Japan -- 3. The role of OIs in the … the USA and Japan -- 7. Empirical evidence on the links between industrial sectoral growth and the Lean Production System …

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 …

The economic system of 'high-growth-period' Japan was characterized by various properties such as its unique banking … severe downturn of the economy during the 1990s, Japan's economic system has been undergoing extensive changes. This book is …