This study aims to determine the factors that affect financial literacy in Japan using data from Osaka University …'s Preference Parameter Study in Japan. We examined fourteen variables covering respondents' demographic, socio-economic, and … the need for a formal financial education and social contact to boost financial literacy levels in Japan. …

This paper presents data on Japan’s household saving rate, considers the reasons for Japan’s high household saving rate … in the past and the reasons for the recent decline therein, projects future trends in Japan’s household saving rate, and … consider the implications of my findings. It finds that Japan’s high household saving rate was a temporary phenomenon and that …