We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms …

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …

countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled to claim foreign tax credits for income taxes that they would have paid to … investment patterns reveal that the volume of Japanese FDI located in countries with whom Japan has than what it would have been … whom Japan has agreements. Similar patters appear when with the United Kingdom are used as instruments for Japanese sparing …

Japan suggests that foreign firms sell five to six times more in Japan than is commonly believed. Previous studies severely … underestimated the stock of FDI in Japan due to poor data. Second, after finding that even after adjusting for various factors the … level of FDI in Japan is still low, the paper explores explanations for this phenomenon. A second main conclusion is that …

opposite tendency. Taking population, per capita income, factor endowments, and distance into account, we find Japan to be more …