The revised edition of this highly acclaimed work presents crucial lessons from Japan's recession that could aid the US … and other economies as they struggle to recover from the current financial crisis. This book is about Japan's 15-year long … happened to Japan, but the discoveries made are so far-reaching that a large portion of economics literature will have to be …

Economic Reforms and Polish Economic Reforms in the 1990s -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Postwar Japan's Economic Growth -- 3 …. Postwar Japan's Economic Reforms -- 4. Comparative Analysis with Polish Economic Reforms -- 5. Conclusion -- 3 Key Industries …

Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement …

of capitalism, and vice versa, and draws on two surveys and 25 case interviews in both the UK and Japan. …

In a few years, the United States has gone from worrying about Japan's economic might to worrying about its meltdown …. The rise and fall of America's 'results-oriented' trade policy towards Japan captures this turnaround. John Kunkel traces … this Japan policy to a crisis in the institutions, laws and norms of the US trade policy regime in the first half of the …

United States and Japan. Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia explores the inefficient tax systems of many developing … to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the United States, the European Union, Japan, and China -- 6. External Debt … Debt Policy in Japan -- 12. Policy Options for Financing Future Health and Long-Term Care Costs in Japan -- Contributors …

corporate community and the impact of Japan's recent recession. In particular the research presented here challenges the view of … -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 1. The changing face of the Japanese company -- 2. Nagasakiya and the retail sector in Japan -- 3 …