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 …

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 …