Japan has experienced pronounced population aging, and now has the highest proportion of elderly adults in the world …. Yet few projections of Japan's future demography go beyond estimating population by age and sex to forecast the complex … functional status of Japan's elderly population in order to estimate disability, health, and need for long term care. Our FEM …

Past government spending in Japan is currently imposing a significant fiscal burden that is reflected in a net debt to …

extensive in Japan. In response to a appreciation of the yen, Japanese firms reduce their export prices in yen sharply so as to …

interest to policymakers at the time of adoption. We examine the political economy of Japan's adoption of the gold standard in … contrast to previous studies examining bond yields, we find little evidence that joining the gold standard reduced Japan … policymakers suggested, we find that membership in the gold standard increased Japan's exports by lowering transactions costs and …

-term business survey conducted by Bank of Japan), GDP, industrial production (preliminary), PPI, CPI (Tokyo area), the unemployment …

events in the United States were the proximate cause of the crash in Japan, but that the transmission mechanism of the crash …