Introduction and Overview to Volumes I and II, The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers by Gary R. Saxonhouse

Gary R. Saxonhouse died November 30, 2006 in Seattle, WA, where he was being treated for leukemia. To honor his many accomplishments and writings on the Japanese economy and given our longstanding relationships with him, Hugh Patrick of Columbia University, Gavin Wright of Stanford University, and I decided to assemble the best of his many writings for publication. The selection of his published papers that comprises these two volumes is a testimony and tribute to his lifetime of work and influence that were cut short by his untimely death.