Research Areas

• Programs (FY2011-)
  • International Trade and Investment
  • International Macroeconomics
  • Regional Economies
  • Technology and Innovation
  • Raising Industrial and Firm Productivity
  • New Industrial Policy
  • Human Capital
  • Social Security, Taxation, and Public Finance
  • Policy History and Policy Assessment
  • Special Projects
• Policy Research Domains (FY2006-2010)
• Maintaining Economic Dynamism under the Adverse Demographic Conditions of Low Fertility and Aging Population
• Promoting Innovation and Strengthening International Competitiveness
• Formulating Japan's Strategy in Response to Globalization and Deepening Economic Interdependence in Asia
• Compilation of the History of Japan's Trade and Industry Policy
• Institutions Related to Financial and Labor Markets, and New Corporate Law and Governance
• Regulatory Reforms and Evaluation Frameworks for Deregulation
• Compilation of Micro Panel Data on Firm Activities, Trade, Energy, and the Elderly; and Model Building and Operation
• Past Research
• Major Common Themes 2005
• Major Common Themes 2004
• Projects

The objective of this program's research is to review and assess trade and industrial policy chiefly over the period from 1980 through 2000, as it looks at Japan's economy, society, and trade and industrial policies at the end of the 20th century.

At the same time the final two decades of the 20th century were a time of significant changes in Japan's economy and society, they also were a time of very major real and organizational changes in trade and industrial policy. This research will attempt to make clear how changes in trade and industrial policy at the turn of the century were effected, based on activities including assessment of the recognition of policy issues over the preceding quarter-century, choice of policy means in response, and their results.

Active Projects

Completed Projects