In Japan - unlike, for example, the US - the word ‘welfare' has a positive connotation and is regularly invoked in … political speech. However, despite welfare's rhetorical popularity, Japan's public expenditure on welfare programs is low …

The primary aim of this paper is to examine inequalities in Japan by looking at attitudes towards class identity …, through an exploration of three specific topics: first, where Japan stood at the end of the 1990s in a cross … Social Survey Programme and found that the percentage of those who identify themselves as middle class in Japan is not …

This paper traces state policies for independent volunteerism in Japan from 1945 onward. It shows how official … as the beginning of Japan's volunteer revolution, the paper concludes that this period is better understood as an outcome …

the cross-country yield curves. Using monthly data between 1985 and 2005 for Canada, Japan, the UK and the US, we employ a …

case of Japan were mainly attributed to the PRC's policy to peg the yuan to the United States (US) dollar, and that the … dollar is used as a dominant invoicing currency for the PRC's exports to Japan. After controlling the currency invoicing …

crisis, Japan attempted just such an exit. This note revisits the Bank of Japan's experience and draws potential lessons for … nature of the assets acquired during the present crisis could pose additional complications, parts of Japan's arsenal …

-through effects in the case of Japan were mainly attributed to the PRC's policy to peg the yuan to the United States (US) dollar, and … that the dollar is used as a dominant invoicing currency for the PRC's exports to Japan. After controlling the currency …