survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …

Comparative Survey of Savings in Japan and the United States,' a binational survey conducted in 1996 by the Institute for Posts … and Telecommunications Policy of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the Government of Japan, in order to shed … the dominant model of household behavior in both countries but that it is far more applicable in Japan than it is in the U …

retirement behavior of households in Japan using micro data from the Preference Parameters Study of Osaka University. Our …

theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said … version of the selfish life-cycle model and then survey the literature on household saving and bequest behavior in Japan in …-cycle model applies to at least some extent in all countries but that there is more consistent support for this model in Japan …

This paper finds that individuals in Japan do not leave very significant bequests, that parents often require a quid …

We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the … impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan …'s population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan …

In this paper, I survey the previous literature on the saving behavior of the aged in Japan and then present some … survey data on the saving behavior of the aged in Japan that became available recently. To summarize the main findings of … that this model is highly applicable in the case of Japan …

importance of borrowing constraints in Japan. We find (1) that 8 to 15 percent of young married Japanese households are borrowing … does not apply in Japan and that the presence of borrowing constraints is not the main reason why it does not apply …