His Excellency Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, under the distinguished Chairmanship of Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam …

This volume connects the evolving modern financial systems of China, Japan, and Korea to the development and growth of …

Between 2002 and 2008, Japan's economy saw constant expansion, a record among the world's advanced economies and Japan … Japanese business practices. This transformation was guided by strategies that enabled Japan's leading corporations, previously … that the emerging practices and attitudes have created a New Japan. Drawing on profiles of several corporations, including …

Despite the enduring importance of the U.S.–Japan security alliance, the broader relationship between the two countries … its political, economic, and social foundations, Kent E. Calder, a leading Japan specialist, asserts that bilateral ….Calder documents the quiet erosion of America’s multidimensional ties with Japan as China rises, generations change, and new forces …

measures as an important priority for policy-makers and every responsible global citizen.Japan has been a leading country in … the area of energy efficiency. Since the 1970s when the oil crisis hit, Japan, which depends almost wholly on imported …. As a result, Japan has achieved the lowest primary energy consumption per GDP in the world. Asian countries should learn …

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 …

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 …

, Japan's acclaimed strategies are not particularly novel or even especially Japanese. Tsutsui traces the roots of these … practices to Scientific Management, or Taylorism, an American concept that arrived in Japan at the turn of the century. During … subsequent decades, this imported model was embraced--and ultimately transformed--in Japan's industrial workshops. Imitation gave …

This paper examines the effects of exports on employment in China, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. It draws on input …, at the aggregate level, the implied employment from exports increased in China, Japan and Korea. Second, at the industry … both Japan and Korea. An implication of the overall results is that even in cases where an industry is not particularly …