introduction to the Japanese economy. Throughout, Ito utilizes standard economic concepts in comparing Japan with the United States … and investment, and international trade and finance. Ito reviews relevant aspects of Japan's history before launching into … economic issues as the Japanese distribution system, Japanese asset prices, and US-Japan trade conflicts. …

with a larger agglomeration of Japanese affiliates or in an area closer to Japan, the more productive Taiwanese firms …

. Second, damaged young firms and damaged old firms are more likely to raise the shares of imports from Japan and China …

This paper studies the process of plant exit and productivity growth in Japan during the ‘lost decade’. A productivity …

-firm lending data. We decompose loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks …

. Little attention is paid in Japan to substitution biases and quality upgrading. This implies that important methodological … differences have emerged between the U.S. and Japan since the U.S. started to correct for these biases in 1999. We estimate that … using the new corrected U.S. methodology, Japan's deflation averaged 1.2 percent per year since 1999. This is more than …