This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the...

Part I Perspective on the History of Women and Family in Japanese Economic Development -- 1 The Labour Market and Labour Migration in Small Post Towns in Early Modern Japan: The Relationship between a Town and its Outlying Villages in the Northeastern Domain of Nihonmatsu in the Eighteenth to...

1 Introduction: Overview -- 2 Japan's Industrial Structure: Forced to Change (1973–1982) -- 3 The global responsibilities of an economic superpower (1981–1992) -- 4 Long-Term Depression and Economic Structural Reform (1991–2000) -- 5 Conclusion: The Emergence of a Twenty-First-Century...

Long-Run Observations (the 1890s to the 2010s) and an Alternative Theory of the Price Level -- Demand for BOJ Notes from Black Markets under Price Controls (1937 to 1949) -- On Wartime Money Finance in the Japanese Occupied Territories (1942 to 1945).