-level data set from Japan, we show that the turnout effect on the amounts of intergovernmental fiscal transfers is indeed …

when he and his Singaporean counterpart, Goh Chok Tong, signed the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA … global trade liberalisation. This paper aims to examine how and why Japan and Singapore decided to pursue FTAs, what … mainly through Singapores initial offer to exclude agricultural products from tariff elimination. But Japan faced problems in …

Since emerging as a leading industrial economy, Japan has played an important role in promoting Asia Pacific economic … cooperation. Japan has been instrumental in every major initiative in economic cooperation in the region over the past three …

changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan adopted a … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in managed trade and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in Japan … integration of Japan with the Asian and global economies. …

With a declining birthrate and an aging population, Japan is increasingly finding itself in deeper financial …

Islands of Japan, and on the north by Jichu Island of the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Yellow Sea, and connected with the … East China Sea area between China and Japan began to surface. After the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea … came into force in 1994, divergence between China and Japan in the delimitation of the continental shelf of the East China …