In Japan, newspapers enjoy a special exemption from antimonopoly prohibitions against resale price maintenance … throughout Japan. In fact, the newspapers have rarely changed their subscription prices in recent years, and the three leading …

This article examines the choice of health care in Japan by patients suffering from the common cold. Original data were …

health economics. Japan has not been included in these international comparisons. This omission is rectified in this paper …, which focuses on Japan. Moreover, we consider its dynamics over six years from 1992 to 1998. The dynamics has never … considered in this fields. In a rigorous international comparison, we cannot find any horizontal inequity in health in Japan and …

This article uses survey data of 90,000 union employees working in 62 publicly-traded companies in Japan between 1990 …

confirmed. Moreover, an awareness of appropriate alcohol consumption supports the sixth strategy of the Health Japan 21 policy …

by the U.S. in the early 1990s and Japan in the late 1990s, are still being debated due to a lack of any convincing …

We compare health care inequity in Japan with that in other OECD countries in 2002 and 2003. To overcome Japanese data … health care inequity for Japan. We test the utilization measure by the number of outpatients, the number of days of inpatient …