Overview
The objective of this research is to develop policy history, based on the achievements of first phase of trade and industrial policy studies covering the period 1945-1979, and the second one covering 1980-2000. First, since the previous research did not cover this topic sufficiently, we evaluate Japan's economic policy after the 1990s. Second, we compare Japan's rapid economic growth with that of Korea, Taiwan, and China, and clarify the commonalities and differences in the growth mechanism. Third, as well as working toward an English version of the second phase of trade and industrial policy history, this research studies the economic policy history of a specific field (standards policy).
August 11, 2014 - March 31, 2016
Major Research Results
2016
RIETI Discussion Papers
2015
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 16-E-043
"Keidanren, Consumption Tax, and the Lost Decade of the 1990s in Japan" (W. Miles FLETCHER III and TAKEDA Haruhito) - 16-E-042
"The Telling of Japan's 'Lost Decade': A comparison with the narration of the U.S. and EU crises" (Peter VON STADEN and KAWAMURA Satoshi) - 16-E-028
"From Economic Controls to Export Expansion in Postwar Taiwan: 1946-1960" (Tsong-Min WU) - 16-J-033
"MITI (METI)'s Policies for Industrial Adjustment in Postwar Japan" (WATANABE Junko) - 16-J-029
"Machinery Industrialization and Industrial Policy" (KAWAMURA Satoshi and TAKEDA Haruhito) - 16-J-027
"Demand Structure of the Taiwanese Economy in the High-growth Period" (MINATO Teruhiro) - 16-J-026
"Historical Overview of Japan's Trade and Industrial Policy around 2000" (TAKEDA Haruhito) - 16-J-025
"The Relation between Industrial Development and Industrial Policy in Korea's High Economic Growth Period" (YEO Inman) - 16-J-020
"Startup and Expansion of High-speed Economic Growth in Postwar South Korea: ‘Miracle of the Han River’" (Chaisung LIM)
