We assess the ongoing reform efforts in Japan in terms of inclusive growth. We use prefectural level panel data to …

financial markets and spillovers from Europe to Japan. The results also suggest that the uncertainty about the direction of …

Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a … towards non-regular employment despite women’s high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …

. Japan succumbed to this bashing, and the yen appreciated too much in 1985, with the result that Japan fell into a zero … of Japan (BOJ), the yen depreciated about 25% against the dollar, stoking fears of a return to Japan bashing by the US …

This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. The …

Japan for a second time when his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, won an overwhelming majority at the general election … current state of the Japanese economy, and examine what further remedies may be required if Japan is to recover from its long …

rates in two developed economies, the United States (US) and Japan. We demonstrate that the assumed asymmetric trade … supply shock in the PRC. Specifically, Japan is under a greater deflationary pressure than the US because of its vertical … trade specialization vis-à-vis the PRC and the PRC’s USdollar- pegged regime. This outcome suggests that, even though Japan …