The growth of Japan's economy is inseparable from changes in the global economy. This program, focusing on the relationship between the globalization of firms (i.e., exports and overseas production) and growth of the Japanese economy, will study R&D and innovation of globalizing firms, international technology transfer, employment, and industrial clusters from theoretical and empirical perspectives, together with studying international trade and investment rules (i.e., the WTO and regional trade agreements) empirically and from both legal and institutional perspectives. Furthermore, it also will study the impacts on firms and industries of the external shock of the Great East Japan Earthquake, changes in production networks and the structure of trade following recovery, and the effects of restrictive energy and material supply on structural changes in the Japanese economy.
Program Director
Study of the Creation of the Japanese Economy and Trade and Direct Investment
May 10, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Project Leader
WAKASUGI Ryuhei
Comprehensive Research on WTO
January 22, 2008 - June 30, 2011
Project Leader
KAWASE Tsuyoshi
Empirical Analysis of Trade Policy Preferences at the Individual Level in Japan
May 16, 2011 - March, 31, 2013
Project Leader
TOMIURA Eiichi
Economic Analysis of Technology in the Global Economy
June 15, 2011 - March, 31, 2013
Project Leader
ISHIKAWA Jota
Pressing Problems of International Investment Law
December 12, 2011 - September 30, 2013
Project Leader
KOTERA Akira
Case Studies and Future Directions of the Global Trading System and Governance
October 25, 2011 - July 31, 2012
Project Leader
NAKATOMI Michitaka
