Recent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems …. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care among OECD countries, the United … States spends the highest, yet life expectancies in Japan are among the world’s longest. Clearly, a great deal can be learned …

Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in … the employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit, and pension policies of the United States and Japan. After …, fringe benefits, and drug coverage in Japan, as well as the dynamics of medical savings accounts, private insurance coverage …

As Japan's decade-long economic stagnation continues, there has been much analysis of the immediate macroeconomic … problems that confront the Japanese economy. This book looks past the short-run challenges to the future of Japan and … concrete suggestions for improvement. The resulting volume is a timely and important examination of critical issues for Japan …