This is the first book to report the details of the current status of interfirm relationships in Japan. Based on a … authors use a huge, unique data set of about 380,000 firms in Japan during the 2007-2010 period. To grasp the entirety of this … enormous data set, which is tantamount to a picture of all firms currently operating in Japan, this brief summarizes …

Network in Japan -- Chapter 4 Interfirm Networks in Manufacturing Industry Agglomerations in Japan: Evidence from Survey Data … Matter? -- Chapter 8 Geographical Spread of Interfirm Transaction Networks and the Great East Japan Earthquake -- Part 3 … Banks in Normal and Crisis Times -- Chapter 10 A New Look at Bank-Firm Relationships and the Use of Collateral in Japan …