In this paper, we present data on trends over time in government debt financing in Japan since 2010 with emphasis on … saving) caused by population aging, will make it necessary for Japan to get its fiscal house in order. Thus, Japan’s massive …

securities, with emphasis on Japan and developing Asia. We find that foreign residents generally increased their holdings of …

Japan's household saving rate showed great volatility, was often low and even negative, and was high only during the 25-year … trends over time in, Japan's household saving rate via various socioeconomic and policy variables. This seems to suggest that … their children than other peoples, suggesting that the alleged social norm of strong family ties in Japan is largely a myth …

the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia showing relatively weak home bias and advanced Asia, especially Japan … capital has been flowing from the US and the Eurozone economies to both advanced Asia (especially Japan) and developing Asia … reasons. The main reason in the case of advanced Asia (especially Japan) appears to be higher riskadjusted returns, whereas …

In this paper, I find (1) that Japan showed massive and persistent current account surpluses from at least 1981 and … until at least 2011, (2) that Professor Ronald McKinnon was correct, at least in the case of Japan, and that these large and … persistent current account surpluses were due primarily to Japan's large and persistent IS imbalances (the excess of saving over …

In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando's seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …

policy recommendations about how to reform personal taxes in Japan. We find that the structure of Japan's current consumption …), describe and evaluate the past and present structure of personal taxes in Japan, and based on our findings, make a number of … and income taxes is problematic from the viewpoints of both efficiency and equity and propose a reform package that …

wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were … the highest among the G7 countries, at least until 2000, household assets were also high in Japan, as a result of which … household net worth and financial health in Japan were among the highest in the G7 countries. Turning to long-term trends in …