investment, rose sharply while that of Japan fell. On the supply side, the paper documents the rise of China into a “global … factory” and the steady shift in regional production and integration from Japan and the United States to China …

commodities that are traded between Japan and its East Asian trading partners to investigate the response of tradable goods prices … customs data for the period 1988-98, it shows that price pass-through is much larger for exports from Japan than for imports … to Japan …

implications for Japan and Asia of several shocks to the Japanese economy. The results suggest that, while fiscal consolidation in … Japan would initially dampen domestic growth, over the medium term the impact on both the domestic and regional economies … would be positive. Quantitative monetary easing in Japan would boost domestic activity in the short-run, while being …

The paper examines the effects of the supply pressure of the exports in the Japan-U.S. bilateral trade. A simultaneous … export supply pressure is much stronger in Japan’s exports than in the U.S. exports, and that supply pressure often affects …

Using the international input-output tables between Japan and five Pacific Basin countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia … 1985. It shows that intra-industry trade in manufactured products expanded as Japan increased imports of more capital …