Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …

Promotion of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) into Japan has been an important policy in the Abenomics growth … stock for Japan. Although the actual inward FDI stock has been growing and is likely to achieve the goal of 35 trillion yen … suggested by the estimated model. We also estimate the model without Japan as a destination country and use the estimated model …

We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms …

countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled to claim foreign tax credits for income taxes that they would have paid to … investment patterns reveal that the volume of Japanese FDI located in countries with whom Japan has than what it would have been … whom Japan has agreements. Similar patters appear when with the United Kingdom are used as instruments for Japanese sparing …

Japan suggests that foreign firms sell five to six times more in Japan than is commonly believed. Previous studies severely … underestimated the stock of FDI in Japan due to poor data. Second, after finding that even after adjusting for various factors the … level of FDI in Japan is still low, the paper explores explanations for this phenomenon. A second main conclusion is that …