RIETI - Other Publications (Japanese)

April 2026

Japan’s Strongest Mid-Sized Firms That Can Save the Country: A guidebook for reaching the next stage of growth

978-4-296-21004-6

Edited by Nikkei Top Leader / Supervised by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry / Supported by the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

September 2025

Learning Urban Economics by Walking

978-4-535-54110-8

Written by NAKAJIMA Kentaro, TESHIMA Kensuke, YAMASAKI Junichi

July 2025

The Underlying Causes of Rice Price Surge: The sin of reducing rice acreage in response to pressure from the Japan Agricultural Co-operatives (JA)

978-4-299-06984-9

Written by YAMASHITA Kazuhito

February 2025

Analysis of Key Issues in Japan's National Security: Considering the strengthening of the defense foundation and the sustainability of defense capabilities

978-4-296-11876-2

Edited by AKIYAMA Masahiro and OGURO Kazumasa

December 2024

Research on Food Security: Preparing for impending food supply disruptions

978-4-296-12082-6

Written by YAMASHITA Kazuhito

December 2024

Parenting with Scientific Evidence: The frontline of education economics

978-4-478-12109-2

Written by NAKAMURO Makiko

November 2024

Transforming the Japanese Economy through Investment: How to make the most of “Amateur Capitalism” to escape Japan’s long-term stagnation

978-4-480-07657-1

Written by MIYAGAWA Tsutomu

October 2024

The Job Market “Ice-age” Generation : Income, family formation, and inequality through data

978-4-12-102825-9

Written by KONDO Ayako

June 2024

Quantitative Macroeconomics and Numerical Computation

978-4-535-54028-6

Written by KITAO Sagiri, SUNAGAWA Takeki, YAMADA Tomoaki

January 2024

Japan's Economic Policy: How to overcome the Lost 30 Years

978-4-641-16621-9

Written by KOBAYASHI Keiichiro

November 2023

Macroeconomic Dynamics: Understanding the origins of business cycles

978-4-641-16621-9

Written by NIREI Makoto

July 2023

Transforming Globalization and the World Economic Order: New structure of the U.S.-China conflict and the Ukraine crisis

978-4-8309-5231-9

Written and edited by UMADA Keiichi, URATA Shujiro, KIMURA Fukunari

July 2023

12 Premier Lessons from the World's Leading Economists

978-4-296-11649-2

Written and edited by HIRONO Ayako

May 2023

Consumption Analysis in Contemporary Japan: Where we are now in life cycle theory

978-4-7664-2895-7

Written by UNAYAMA Takashi

May 2023

Was Elon Musk's Decision to Make All Employees Returning to the Office Correct? Working from Home or Returning to the Office? - Japanese business managers must urgently create a working style that improves productivity

978-4-8283-1019-0

Written by IWAMOTO Koichi

April 2023

The Economics of Human Resources for Japanese Companies

978-4-296-11768-0

Written by TSURU Kotaro

December 2022

Economics of Public R&D Support: Toward evidence-based policy making

978-4-641-16609-7

Written by OKAMURO Hiroyuki, NISHIMURA Junichi

December 2022

Wellness Tourism that Energizes the Mind, Body, and Community

978-4-322-14209-9

Written by SEKIGUCHI Yoichi

September 2022

Economists’ Challenges amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Balancing infectious disease control and social activities

978-4-535-54036-1

Written by NAKATA Taisuke, FUJII Daisuke

March 2022

Lessons on Food and Agriculture for the Japanese People: Thinking with facts and logic

978-4-532-35916-4

Written by YAMASHITA Kazuhito

October 2021

Globalization and the choices of SMEs in the manufacturing sector: Looking at "borderline firms" using micro data

978-4-8140-0361-7

Written by ITO Koji

July 2021

Practices of ESG Management: Evaluation of non-fiscal value using the inclusive wealth index

978-4-910255-06-4

Written by MANAGI Shunsuke

April 2021

Economics of AI: Mastering its predictive capabilities

978-4-535-55942-4

Written by TSURU Kotaro

April 2021

Economics of Competition Policy: Population decline, digitalization, and industrial policy

978-4-532-13513-3

Written by OHASHI Hiroshi

March 2021

Demographic Changes and Institutional Designs for Fiscal and Social Security

978-4-535-54002-6

Written by OGURO Kazumasa

April 2020

Renminbi's Unfinished Reform: The Road to an International Currency

978-4-8309-5050-6

Written by C.H. Kwan

March 2020

Restructuring of the Japanese Economy

978-4-532-35839-6

Written by OGURO Kazumasa

December 2019

Rapid Economic Growth as History

978-4-8140-0247-4

Edited by TAKEDA Haruhito, LIM Chaisung

March 2019

Economics of Time: Freedom, Justice and the Avenge of History

978-4-8178-4529-0

Written by KOBAYASHI Keiichiro

February 2019

Structural Reform for Community Economic Development II: New Development and Practices

978-4-8178-4529-0

Written by NAKAMURA Ryohei

November 2018

The Economic Role of Productivity: Readdressing the viability of the Japanese economy

978-4-480-07189-7

Written by MIYAGAWA Tsutomu

July 2018

The Economics of Pharmaceutical Pricing

978-4-532-13486-0

Edited by OGURO Kazumasa, SUGAWARA Takuma

January 2018

Recollections of Kunio Yanagida’s Views on Agricultural Reforms

978-4-10-603822-8

Written by YAMASHITA Kazuhito

November 2017

Japan’s Labor Market: Perspectives of economists

978-4-641-16512-0

Edited by KAWAGUCHI Daiji

July 2017

Companies Capable of Bringing Out the Potential of the Local Economies: The future as seen in the global niche-top enterprises

978-4-480-06972-6

Written by HOSOYA Yuji

May 2017

Strategy for Ending the Stagnation: Beyond debt and growth

978-4-532-35722-1

Written by TASHIRO Takeshi

May 2017

Smart Grid Economics: The evidence-based policy created through filed experiments, behavioral economics, and big data

978-4-641-16505-2

Written by IDA Takanori, TANAKA Makoto, ITO Koichiro

April 2017

The Power of Data Analysis: How to approach causality

978-4-334-03986-8

Written by ITO Koichiro

March 2017

Era of Large Excess Economy

978-4-532-35724-5

Written by NAKAJIMA Atsushi

February 2017

Causal Inference in Economics

978-4-478-03947-2

Written by NAKAMURO Makiko, TSUGAWA Yusuke

February 2017

Understanding the Oil Market

978-4-532-11370-4

Written by FUJI Kazuhiko

February 2017

Economics of Agglomeration

978-4-492-31493-7

Written by FUJITA Masahisa, Jacques-Francois THISSE
Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Globalization (2nd Edition)

August 2016

TPP Will Vitalize Japanese Agriculture

978-4-532-35701-6

Written by YAMASHITA Kazuhito

August 2015

Industry 4.0: Germany's Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Impacts

978-4-526-07446-2

Written by IWAMOTO Koichi

June 2015

International Economic Law

978-4-13-032375-8

Written by MATSUSHITA Mitsuo , KOMETANI Kazumochi

February 2015

Modularity vs. Integral: Perspective of Japan's industrial structure

978-4-86584-007-0

Written and edited by NAKATA Yukihiko, ANDOH Haruhiko, SHIBATA Tomoatsu

December 2014

A Prospect of Studies on Intellectual Property and Innovation

978-4-561-26645-7

Edited by Editorial Committee of IP Study Seminar, Intellectual Property Association of Japan
Chapter 6 "Development Models for Intellectual Property Organizations and Measurement Methodology for Innovation Effectiveness: Comprehensive management of patents and standardization" by TAMURA Suguru