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 …

How has the Bank of Japan (BOJ) helped shape Japan's economic growth during the past two decades? This book … policies promoted economic growth in the 1980s. The authors argue that the structure of Japan's financial markets, particularly … to influence Japan's economic success. The first two chapters provide the most in-depth English-language discussion of …

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 …

Although Japan and the United States are the world's leading economies, there are significant differences in the ways … in the two countries. For example, because down payments in Japan are much higher than in the United States, Japanese … credit may have reduced private saving overall. This book is the first comparison of housing markets in Japan and the United …

United States and Japan, explore Japanese trade patterns, market structure and trade, financial markets, and industrial and … trade policy. Offering analysis of the issues, Trade with Japan is a valuable resource for economists, policymakers, and the …

trading blocks in the Western Hemisphere and Europe. They cover trade between the United States and Japan, Korea and Japan …, and Japanese-East Asian trade policies; trade in agriculture and semiconductors and the frictions that have jeopardized … protection in Korea and Taiwan and political economy considerations as they affect trade policy in general. This is the second …

quantitative analysis of economic growth and the principal question addressed is how Japan was able to grow so rapidly. The …

As Japan's newfound economic power leads to increased political power, there is concern that Japan may be turning East … political scientists address this concern by looking at three central questions: Is Japan forming a trading bloc in Pacific Asia …? Does Japan use foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia to achieve national goals? Does Japan possess the leadership …

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 …