"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …

"This paper focuses on Tohoku University in Sendai in the nonmetropolitan area of Japan. Both a long historical and …

"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing … with regulated prices to uninsured services with unregulated prices. Japan, in its approach to rate-setting for insured …

innovativeness at many levels. The authors discuss six main developments that are changing the industrial landscape in Japan and in …

, the national system of innovation, and the historical genesis of Tokyo in Japan's political economy. They find that the …