[comp.research.japan] Kahaner Report: Japan's Economic Challenge: Study Papers

rick@cs.arizona.edu (Rick Schlichting) (02/26/91)

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From: David K. Kahaner ONR Asia [kahaner@xroads.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp]
Re: Japan's Economic Challenge: Study Papers
20 Feb 1991

ABSTRACT. Titles of papers printed for use by the Joint Economic
Committee (US Congress). While primarily about economic issues there are
several interesting papers on Japanese science and technology.  Other
topics include economic policy, government/business relations, finance
and investment, human resources (population, women, etc.), national
security and foreign aid, and international economic relations.


JAPAN'S ECONOMIC CHALLENGE STUDY PAPERS:
SUBMITTED TO THE JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 
OCTOBER 1990 

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Topic: Science and Technology

     Asymmetries and Potential Complementarities:  Scientific and
       Technological Relations Between Japan and the United States
          Martha Caldwell Harris (Director of the Office of Japan Affairs of
          the National Research Council)

     Appraising Japanese Science and Technology
          Cecil H. Uyehara (President of Uyehara International ASssociates,
          Inc., Washington, D.C.; Senior Advisor to the Japanese Technical
          Evaluation Center in Loyola College, Baltimore, MD)

     Science Policy in Japan and the United States as It Affects Scientific
       and Economic Development
          David M. Flynn (Associate Professor of Management at Hofstra
          University)

     Japan's Basic Research:  Evolution From "Manufacturer" to "Laboratory"
       for the World
          Genevieve J. Knezo (Specialist in Science and Technology, Science
          Policy Research Division, Congressional Resarch Service)

     Japan and the Global Environment:  Problem Solver or Problem Maker?
          Asan S. Miller, Curtis Moore (Center for Global Change of the
          University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland) 


Topic: Framework of Economic Policy

     Recent Trends and Outlook for the Japanese Economy
          Craig Elwell (Specialist in Macroeconomics, Economics Division,
          Congressional Research Service)

     Framework of Monetary Policy in Japan
          Shinji Takagi (Associate Professor of Economics at the University of
          Osaka in Osaka, Japan)

     Outline of Public Finance in Japan
          Shinji Takagi (Associate Professor of Economics at the University of
          Osaka in Osaka, Japan)
          

Topic: Government and Business

     Japanese Government-Business Relations
          Phyllis A. Genther (Director of the Japan Technology Program,
          Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce)

     Business-Business Relations:  Auto Parts Sourcing in Japan
          Michael J. Smitka (Assistant Professor of Economics, Washington and
          Lee University)

     Japan's Industrial Groups, the Keiretsu
          Dick K. Nanto (Specialist in Industry and Trade, the Congressional
          Research Service, Library of Congress)
     
     Productivity of Japanese Manufacturing Industries and Their Market
       Competition
          Tetsuji Yamada (Employee of National Bureau of Economic Research;
          teaches at Rutgers University's Camden Campus)
          Tadashi Yamada (Employee of National Bureau of Economic Research;
          teaches at College of International Relations of the University of
          Tsukuba)
          Guoen Liu (Instructor in Economics at the Graduate School of the
          City University of New York)


Topic: Finance and Investment

     The Cost of Capital in Japan and the United States
          Douglas Ostrom (Economic Analyst at the Japan Economic Institute)

     Financial Reform, Inflation, and Monetary Policy in Japan:  Lessons for
       U.S. Policy
          Thomas F. Cargill (Professor of Economics, University of Nevada,
          Reno)

     Foreign Access to Japan's Capital Markets
          James K. Jackson (Analyst in International Trade and Finance,
          Economics Division, Congressional Research Service)

     Japan's Foreign Investment Laws and the T. Boone Pickens Case
          Sung Yoon Cho (Assistant Chief of the Far Eastern Law Division, Law
          Library of Congress)
          Constance A. Johnson (Legal Research Analyst in the Divisio)
     
     Foreign Pressure and the Liberalization of Japan's Financial Markets
          Frances McCall Rosenbluth (Assistant Professor at the Graduate
          School of International Relations and Pacific Studies of the
          University of California, San Diego)

     Japan's Financial Stake in the United States:  How Stable Is It?
          James K. Jackson (Analyst in International Trade and Finance,
          Economics Division, Congressional Research Service)

     Japan-U.S. Joint Manufacturing Ventures
          Dorothy B. Christelow (Former economics specialist in international
          trade and finance at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; now a
          consultant based in New Canaan, Connecticut)


Topic: Human Resources

     Japan's Changing Population Structure:  Projections and Implications
          Wayne M. Morrison (Analyst in International Trade and Finance in the
          Economics Division of the Congressional Research Service)

     Social Security Systems in Japan
          Robert L. Clark (Professor, Department of Economics and Business,
          North Carolina State University; Senior Research Associate, Center
          for Demographic Studies, Duke University; Senior Fellow, Center for
          the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University)

     The Japanese Labor Market
          Robert Evans, Jr. (Atran Professor of Labor Economics at Brandeis
          University)

     Women in the Japanese Labor Force
          M. Anne Hill (Associate Professor of Economics at Queens College;
          Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Business
          and Government, Baruch College)

     The Recent Decline of Unionization in Postwar Japan:  A Comparative
       Appraisal
          Carl Mosk (Professor, Department of Economics and Centre for Asia-
          Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Victoria, British
          Columbia, Canada)

Topic: National Security and Foreign Aid

     Defense Policy
          Larry Niksch (Specialist in Asian Affairs in the Foreign Affairs and
          National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service)

     The Japanese Defense Sector in Perspective
          Richard F. Kaufman (General Counsel, Joint Economic Committee)

     Japan's Defense Industry
          Steven K. Vogel (Research Fellow at the Berkeley Roundtable on the
          International Economy (BRIE), University of California, Berkeley)

     Japan's Foreign Aid Program:  Adjusting to the Role of the World's
       Leading Donor
          Larry Q. Nowels (Specialist in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs and
          National Defense Division, Congressional Research Service)


Topic: International Economic Relations

     Market Opening in Japan:  Challenges for U.S. Policy
          Raymond J. Ahearn (Specialist in Trade Relations, Foreign Affairs
          and National Defense Division, Congressional Research Service)

     U.S.-Japanese Economic Relations in the 1980s and the Challenges That Lie
       Ahead
          William H. Cooper (Specialist in International Trade and Finance in
          the Economics Division of the Congressional Research Service)

     U.S. Trade Friction With Japan
          Alan Wm. Wolff (Law partner at Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer &
          Wood; formerly U.S. Deputy Special Representative for Trade
          Negotiations and General Counsel for the Office of the U.S. Trade
          Representative)
     
     An Analysis of Japan's 1990 Import-Expansion Measures
          Stephen V. Marks (Visiting Senior Economist, Planning and Economic
          Analysis Staff, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, U.S.
          Department of State; Associate Professor, Pomona College)

     Opening of Japanese Markets to Agricultural Imports
          Donna U. Vogt (Analyst in Agricultural Policy, Environment and
          Natural Resources Policy Division, Congressional Research Service)

     Capital Flows and Trade Imbalances:  The U.S.-Japanese Interaction
          Robert Z. Aliber (Professor of International Economics and Finance
          at the University of Chicago)

     A Japan-Dominated Asia-Pacific Region?
          Richard P. Cronin (Specialist in Asian Affairs in the Foreign
          Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research
          Service)

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