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Changing faces of Japanese defense policy: Past and future
Michishita, Narushige - In: Global Economic Review 31 (2002) 4, pp. 91-100
During the Cold War, Japan played a strategic role by contributing to the global containment against the Soviet Union …. After the Cold War, Japan became more active operationally and better prepared legally. However, it did not play significant … strategic roles in shaping the post-Cold War international order. The question now is whether Japan will play strategic roles in …
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Participatory Rural Development in 1930s Japan: The Economic Rehabilitation Movement
Arimoto, Yutaka - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2011
This paper studies an early participatory rural development program implemented during the 1930s in Japan. This program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195409
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Fragmentation and Agglomeration Matter: Japanese Multinationals in Latin America and East Asia
Kimura, Fukunari; Ando, Mitsuyo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
Latin America and East Asia presented diversified performance in industrialization in the 1990s, and one of the crucial factors that made the contrast was the different degree of developing international production/distribution networks. This paper analyzes micro data of Japanese multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009199138
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Remittances from Japan to Latin America
Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
Results and analysis of a poll in Japan: Study of Latin American immigrants from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and … Paraguay, living and working in Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009199182
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THE HIGH-SPEED RAIL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHEAST MEGAREGION OF THE UNITED STATES: A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
CHEN, Xueming - In: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 5 (2010) 8(17), pp. 30-48
This paper examines the high-speed rail (HSR) development issues in the Northeast Megaregion of the United States (U.S.). Due to chronic underinvestment and a myriad of other factors, the only operational HSR in the U.S., i.e., Amtrak’s Acela Express, is lagging behind the Japanese Shinkansen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752262
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Asian Century: A Comparative Analysis of Growth in China, India and other Asian Economies
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper argues that if the Chinese economy had failed, mainstream economics would have described this as completely predictable, given the extent and nature of involvement of the Chinese state in the functioning of markets and the economy. The fact that China has succeeded therefore should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752338
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ASEAN and Strategic Rivalry among the Great Powers in Asia
Egberink, Fenna; Putten, Frans-Paul van der - In: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 29 (2010) 3, pp. 131-141
: China-US, China-Japan, and China-India. The authors argue that although ASEAN’s influence is limited in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753276
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Location choice of multinational enterprises in China : comparison between Japan and Taiwan
Chang, Kuo-I; Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Matsuura, Toshiyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010
with a larger agglomeration of Japanese affiliates or in an area closer to Japan, the more productive Taiwanese firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753467
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China and East Asian production networks: some policy implications
Thorpe, Michael - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 1 (2009) 3, pp. 291-306
emerged, with Japan and the newly industrialised economies exporting intermediate goods to the ASEAN-4 countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755210
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Trans-boundary pollution, free trade agreement/economic partnership agreement and economic welfare
Kondoh, Kenji - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 1 (2009) 1, pp. 136-152
investigate the case where the developed home country J (Japan) concludes an FTA/EPA with one of the two developing foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755228