country (China) over the period 1997-2009. We confirm Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007)'s prediction that regions that … contributors to the global upgrading of China's exports. This finding suggests that the contribution of assembly trade and foreign …

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 …

, 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 … and within village) among peasants in the mid 19th century Tama, Japan. …

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 … in Japan . It has been led both by Japanese and French researchers which used statistical databases on Japanese and …

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 monetary policy during the "lost" decade and quantify the effect of quantitative easing on Japan's activity and prices …