Kawai, Masahiro; Urata, Shujiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
In this paper we examine the changing nature of Japans commercial policy over the last 25 years while reviewing Japans changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan adopted a two-track approach of relying on multilateral...