This paper provides an empirical analysis of the technology market for patents in Japan, by using a novel firm …

Japan makes in the next few years will have a significant influence on the energy security of the world as a whole, and of … situation in Japan, focusing on policies related to climate change targets, renewable energy development and deployment … the structure of the Japan LEAP (long-range energy alternatives planning software system) dataset, describes several …

at affordable prices, without unacceptable or irreversible impact on the economy and the environment, Japan is facing an … anxiety. With the temporary and/or permanent closure of many nuclear reactors Japan has had to replace lost power. Tokyo has … had no choice but to secure additional fossil fuels, a strategy that has negatively affected Japan’s economy due to rising …

With increased economic and tourism interests in both Japan and Russia, culturally different meanings of ‘forest’ need … in a cultural framework, we conducted cross-national research in Japan and Russia. A total of 325 respondents were asked … framework. As a result, landscape image sketches revealed differences between respondents in Japan and Russia. The typical …

This paper studies the process of plant exit and productivity growth in Japan during the ‘lost decade’. A productivity …

Japan has the highest suicide rates among the OECD countries and this public health problem seems to be accelerating in … Japan for the period of 1957–2009. Using the ARDL approach to cointegration, we find that the associations of suicide with …

In Japan, retirement is a gradual process that transpires over a particularly long period of time. Using large scale …