attention to the cases of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, exploring their specific cases and analyzing contributing factors …. While Japan suffered from excessive credit prior to the bubble bursting, and from insufficient domestic demand subsequently …

After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the postwar era, Japan plunged … is only now emerging. Japan's malaise, marked by recession or weak economic activity, commodity and asset price deflation … industrial world since the 1930s. In Japan's Great Stagnation, experts on the Japanese economy consider key questions about the …