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

and not in others? In approaching this question, Wenkai He compares the paths of three different nations—England, Japan …Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a …

, 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 report independently assesses the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement. We find that the EPA establishes an …

"Japan's Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan's domestic economic and political evolution, its economic …