program -- The intelligent manufacturing systems initiative -- The real world computing program -- A broader view of Japan …

This book examines the economic and political rise of China from the perspective of Japan’s economic development …. Beginning with Japan’s rise to statehood in the Kamakura Period (1185 to 1333) and detailing the evolution of its economy … through to 2018, parallels are drawn with the economic development of China. Many of the challenges Japan faced in the first …

The contributors to this book, from the US and Japan, explore the main issues involved in the international trade …, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan and provide guidance to policymakers … for measures to help overcome Japan's economic stagnation since the early 1990s. The book is divided into three parts …