In the 1980s the performance of Japan's economy was an international success story, and led many economists suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today however, the dominant view today is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the...

1. Thirty years of neo-liberal reforms in Japan / Yves Tiberghien -- 2. Is this the end of the J-model of the firm? / Sebastien Lechevalier -- 3. Is Japanese capitalism still co-ordinated? / Sebastien Lechevalier -- 4. What is the nature of the Japanese social compromise today? / Sebastien...