Summary Drawing on cutting-edge research from leading scholars, this book investigates state preferences for regime creation and assesses state capacity for executing these preferences in…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract Vietnam launched its first projects in the field of nuclear power at the end of 1990s. Today the annual total power generation in the…
Abstract Even before the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster shut down all 48 Japanese nuclear reactors, Japan’s plan to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel and use…
Abstract Chinese-Japanese relations have become increasingly tense in recent years. It might be concluded superficially that the recent tensions originated from the historical issues and…
Abstract We summarize the results of a recent statistical analysis of 216 nuclear energy accidents and incidents (events). The dataset is twice as large as…
Abstract A territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has gained a high profile in Sino–Japanese relations. Since the 2012 escalation of the territorial dispute, there…
Abstract The nuclear accident that occurred in Fukushima, Japan has broadly affected the rapid development trend of the worldwide nuclear industry, causing many countries, including…
Abstract Urban Chinese today do not appear to trust foreign countries. Why are they so suspicious? Over the past quarter century, the Chinese Communist Party…
Abstract One of the most controversial issues during the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea was to determine the legal status of the…
Abstract Through an examination of East Asian economies, this paper proposes two new capitalist ideal types: family market economies and state market economies. In contrast…
Summary Resource interdependence has driven economic integration in the Asia-Pacific. Through trade and investment ties, Northeast Asian steel industries have developed global production networks with…
Abstract In this paper, I investigate the causes of the recent sharp response of the yen and Japanese stock prices to the discussion of, and…
Abstract We study micro price dynamics and their macroeconomic implications using daily scanner data from 1988 to 2013. We provide five facts. First, posted prices…
Abstract The environmental impacts of the nuclear accidents of Chernobyl and Fukushima are compared. In almost every respect, the consequences of the Chernobyl accident clearly…
Abstract Japan has suffered from a long-lasting but mild deflation since the latter half of the 1990s. Estimates of a standard Phillips curve indicate that…
