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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
Order this document from the US Superintendent of Documents, Congressional
Sales Office, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 20402.
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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