In spite of a growing foreign population spurred in part by rapid social aging, relatively few studies have looked to immigrant integration issues in Japan, particularly at the municipal level. This article considers national and local integration efforts, focusing on the case of Nagoya city. I...

Purpose: Examining the linkage between self-reported ethnicity and the propensity for family-based informal health care, this study considers cultural connections to religion as a possible explanation for ethnic difference. Design and Methods: Nation-wide survey respondents (N = 2,126) were...

The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...