strategy in multidimensional auctions, using data from public energy service company projects in Japan. It shows that …

many levels. The authors discuss six main developments that are changing the industrial landscape in Japan and in this …

The burst of the Japanese financial bubble in the early 1990s has increased the bad debts of Japan's financial … institutions. Japan accounts for about 20 percent of foreign aid to developing countries and for 10 percent of their exports, so … Japan's economic health is important. The authors analyze the situation, assess the bad debt stock, and simulate the likely …

Brazilians, of Japanese origin (Nikkeijin) working in Japan. This is because the revision has basically allowed Nikkeijin to … enter Japan legally even as unskilled workers, while the Japanese law, in principle, prohibits foreigners from taking … comprehensive account of the migration of Nikkeijin workers to Japan. The paper contains a brief review of the history of Japanese …

This paper focuses on Tohoku University in Sendai in the nonmetropolitan area of Japan. Both a long historical and …

The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing … with regulated prices to uninsured services with unregulated prices. Japan, in its approach to rate-setting for insured …