Due to an aging population and falling birthrates, the labor force in Japan will continue to decline in the next decades, and per capita income is also likely to decrease. To address this problem, the Japanese government is considering relaxing restrictions on foreign labor, and there have been...

Since the 1990s, computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis has been widely used as a tool for evaluating the quantitative effects of trade policy, and many CGE studies have concerned trade liberalization in Japan. However, no study has attempted to examine the regional effects of...