This paper attempts to forecast the changes in the Kansai-Areafs import and export when the East Asia Free Trade …-Areafs trade in the following manner. First, we survey the simulation studies that forecast the changed in Japanfs national level … promotes the Kansai-Areafs trade totally and expands the regional trade surplus. …

This paper investigates the sequence of trade liberalization in postwar Japan and its determinants. As the Japanese … domestic industries, in the 1950s, trade liberalization was considered to give a serious impact on those industries, and … designing the sequence of trade liberalization was an important policy issue. We indentified the timing of liberalization of …