postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing well - an unusual finding for a developed economy. Adopted heirs …

leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves' meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy …

this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …

To analyze business fixed investment in Japan, which has been unusually volatile in recent years, we develop and apply …