, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

Policy discussions in Japan have increasingly recognized the important role of land values and land-use patterns in … Japanese macroeconomic adjustment. In Japan in recent years, land wealth constitutes more than half of financial wealth, a …

prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …

This paper reaches seven conclusions regarding the Yen Bloc that Japan is reputed to be forming in Pacific Asia. (1 … is no evidence of a special Japan effect. (3) Once one properly accounts for rapid growth in Asia, the statistics do not … Asian countries, though overall its influence is as yet no greater than that of New York. (6) Some of Japan's financial and …

Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the …