This paper compares the sources of income inequality in Japan and the United States. We exploit two longitudinal … household surveys to decompose the income inequality in both countries. For Japan, we use Keio Household Panel Survey data and … Japan (0.329), corroborating well-established previous findings. In a second step, we decompose the income inequality in …

) (2002); India (2004); Japan (2008); Republic of Korea (2006); the Russian Federation (2004, 2007, and 2010); and Taipei …. Japan; Taipei,China; and Republic of Korea have very low degrees of overall income inequality by world standards, while …

Japan and the United States to examine whether individuals who receive intergenerational transfers from their parents are … children in both Japan and the United States, which in turn is likely to contribute to the persistence or widening of wealth …

Since 1998, sales channels for investment trusts have expanded in Japan. We expected this to result in greater demand … Japanese markets. Investment trusts are the vehicle for seizing world economic trends. However, the performance of Japan …

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was an accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, Japan …-long nuclear shutdown in the country. During the shutdown, Japan substituted fossil fuels for nuclear power and became more … elasticity of oil consumption to crude oil price before and after the Fukushima disaster in Japan's various economic sectors. To …

expansion counteracts a crisis triggered by a preceding overinvestment boom, it paralyzes growth in the long term, as Japan …