Bankers in Japan and China are masters of accounting, not risk management, and American-style rescue packages will not … solve their problems. This work explains the banking crises in Japan and China, pointing out that Japanese and Chinese …

In the late 1980s, Japan's strong economic performance put it on a the verge of becoming a major player in regional and …. Yet Japan has been slow to embrace the systemic reform on which a robust economic recovery depends. In Arthritic Japan …, Edward J. Lincoln examines the causes and implications of this weak response. Concluding that Japan is unlikely to pursue the …

In this text, Aaron Forsberg presents an account of Japan's postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the … Cold War. His interpretation highlights the many connections between Japan's economic revival and changes that occurred in …

Analyzing case studies from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea this book highlights common characteristics of agriculture …

Much is puzzling about Japan's finances today: its inability to arrest its economic decline, its festering banking …'s problems? Japan's Policy Trap offers a provocative new analysis of the country's protracted economic stagnation. Japanese … insider Akio Mikuni and long-term Japan resident R. Taggart Murphy contend that the country has landed in a policy trap that …

In this candid book, Japan's former top financial diplomat asserts the urgent need for wholesale structural reform to …

, Japan and Europe, and led to missed opportunities in developing new technologies …