increasingly necessary for Japan to reform its economic and institutional systems. A key element of this reform concerns Japan …

Japan is embarked on a demographic transition without precedent in human history: the population is both declining and … for the settlement pattern of the country, and this, in turn, will affect Japan's ability to sustain economic growth and … growth that a "super-ageing" Japan will need in order to maintain its future prosperity. The Japanese authorities have …

China's remarkable growth in recent years has been often rather arbitrarily ascribed to a number of politico …

This book provides a selection of papers presented at the Foreign Direct Investment in China’s Regional Development …-operation. The book reviews regional patterns of FDI inflows in China, investment requirements, opportunities in and comparative … advantages of China’s regions, and details the types of FDI sought for the Chinese hinterland. It offers business perspectives …