The driving force of Japan's economic recovery is exports; in particular, exports to East Asia have been increasing rapidly. Two main reasons can be pointed out for the strength of exports to East Asia. The first reason is the expansion of China's domestic demand. The second reason is a...

Japan's trade with China, both in exports and imports, has been growing overwhelmingly over the past few years. In 2002 in particular, Japanese exports to China marked their highest growth of the past decade, sustained by strong domestic demand there and also by the effects of China's accession...

This paper examines the demand shift toward workers who are university graduates in terms of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) and globalization, both of which utilize relatively more workers with specific skills. According to the results of our empirical study, which used the major...

This paper analyzes trade patterns in Japan's machinery sector using disaggregated data of export and import commodities. It is found that the vertical intra-industry trade--the two-way trade of products differentiated by quality--with Asian countries expanded in the 1990s. According to the...

In this paper, we investigate interdependencies between Asia-Pacific economies by using the Asian International Input-Output Table. The results of production inducement analysis show that the production inducement coefficients of many Asia-Pacific countries have recently increased, and in...

This paper investigates the effects of increased import competition on Japanese manufacturing employment at the four-digit industry level from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. The estimation results of a labor demand equation indicate that decreases in import prices are closely related to the...

This paper investigates the features and recent changes of China's industrial structure using input-output tables for different periods from 1997 to 2005. We find that the domestic production inducement coefficients of China's material and machinery industries have declined while the import...