Japan’s economy was on track to surpass the U.S., dominating global markets and leading the world in technology and finance.

It is difficult now, after three long decades of deadening deflation, to imagine how truly wild the 1980s' bubble was in Japan, and how speculation upended its strait-laced culture. Kazukuni ...

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

I document trends of concentration in national and local markets in Japan since 1980. First, national market concentration within industries or product categories has increased since the mid-1990s ...

In this paper, we use the Japanese Labour Force Survey and Labour Force Survey Special Survey microdata for 1984–2012 to analyze stable and unstable employment in Japan since the 1980s for different ...