in Japan were costly for mature and healthy firms in the 1980s and 1990s and whether banks continued to facilitate …

existing toll roads, using the network equilibrium model developed for the Osaka Metropolitan Area, Japan. Cordon pricing is …

Japan has been a key player in the global competition based on scientific and technological innovation. Through a … major investments in regional clusters. Collaboration with business has likewise been a centerpiece of the Japan strategy … observations about the first decade of the country's extensive efforts to establish Japan as a global leader in the …

Analysis of flow of funds data provides evidence of gradual disintermediation in Japan's financial system, but the … recommends further development of Japan's corporate bond market with improved access by foreign participants including borrowers …

import demand function in Japan. In contrary to many studies, the results of cointegration tests suggest that the presence of … cointegration relationship for Japan's aggregate import demand function is not stable over the sample period, 1973.Q1-2007.Q2. Again …

This article is a theoretically grounded empirical contribution aimed at shedding light on Japan's policy stance on … Nation (ASEAN) + 3 (South Korea, Japan and China). It provides a wide spectrum of regional-integrationist perspectives in … order to offer as full a picture as possible of Japan's role in promoting regional integration in East Asia. The key finding …