disproportionately suffer from pollution. In China, where the environmental policy is decentralized and where environmental conflicts … studies focused on developed countries. In this paper, we study whether transboundary pollution problems exist in China. To do …

This study reviews port cargo flow structure on hinterland/foreland (i.e. shippers' port use propensity) in Japan to … examine port policy. Port service areas are analysed by conducting fuzzy clustering for 47 prefectures in Japan. Container … time series. The share changes of major Japanese ports for handling international container cargo indicated that only the …

in Japan . It has been led both by Japanese and French researchers which used statistical databases on Japanese and … comparative analysis on two steel plants, localised in France and in Japan. We will examine changes that have occurred in labour … and industrial relations and human resource development in two steel industry plants after the 1980s, in Japan and in …

countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they … are particularly large. It is also proposed to explore the reasons why the male/female wage gap is so large in Japan in … markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and …

Japanese data, we provide three insights. First, the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates is …, indicates a strengthening credibility of the Bank of Japan and thus the effectiveness of its policy. …

This paper studies the formation of marriage relationships between two households in 19th century, Tama, Japan …. Previous studies on marriage market or partner selection in the Japanese past tended to rely either on information from a … and within village) among peasants in the mid 19th century Tama, Japan. …

Japanese monetary policy during the "lost" decade and quantify the effect of quantitative easing on Japan's activity and prices …. The unique Japanese experience of quantitative easing is the only experience which enables us to judge this therapy … recession and deflation but also to provide considerable stimulation to both output and prices. If Japanese experience is any …

towards China's decentralization of environment policy implementation as well as its fiscal arrangements. …

Since the inception of economic reforms, China in 1978 and Vietnam in 1986, both countries have become successful … between China and Vietnam?" through a comparative study of the FDI determinants. In other words, this paper revisits the … determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam by employing an augmented gravity model and using a panel dataset containing information …