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February 03, 2010

Exports to Western markets have significantly declined following the global economic crisis of 2008, preventing the Japanese economy from staging ...

November 13, 2009

The world’s 20 largest economies agreed in Pittsburgh to coordinate their efforts to overcome the global economic crisis. While they ...

July 14, 2009

Of the wide variety of noodles of Japan, among the most popular is a thick wheat flour noodle called udon. ...

January 20, 2009

The yuko is an astringent type of citrus fruit recently confirmed to be native to Japan. Aromatic and high in ...

September 30, 2008

Will the Chinese economy lose steam after the Beijing Olympics? The author visited China's economic hub of Shanghai just before ...

August 30

Kato, Hideki

In a global economy awash in mass-produced goods, handicraft industries are apt to be treated as relics of the past ...

August 26

Abiru, Taisuke

In the second half of this two-part series, the author explores the complex interrelationship between nuclear energy cooperation and nuclear ...

August 20

Abiru, Taisuke

With energy demand soaring and global temperatures rising, nuclear power is poised to make a dramatic worldwide comeback. Japanese industry ...

August 10

Tanaka, Hideaki

Because Japan's postal savings system plays a major role in financing government programs, proposed changes to the privatization plan adopted ...

August 5

Iwai, Katsuhito

Wicksell's starting point was an attempt to reformulate the quantity theory of money from the neoclassical perspective. ...