policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese economy should plan for the future. In this book, leading … economists and economic historians of Japan examine a range of key issues concerning institutional and technological change in … Japan, rigorously using discipline-based tools of analysis, and drawing important conclusions as to how the process of …

Japan has a strong reputation as an innovator, some people argue that this reputation is misplaced. Contrary to earlier … expectations, the USA rather than Japan emerged as the leader in the biotech industries in the 1990s, and also many small firms in … Japan supply only a few - or just one - other company, thereby limiting their view of the marketplace and the commercial …