Combined with the work of western economists who can utilize japaneselanguage sources, this series assembles a wide range of englishlanguage articles on the key issues in. Yet the japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Japanese economic history japan nihon or nippon, country 2015 est. He says that in the book he wants to make sense of the third quarter of the. Japan is also the worlds biggest creditor with the leading public debt ratio overview of the economy of japan. Discover librarianselected research resources on japanese economic history from the questia online library, including fulltext online books. Japan s economy was the envy of the world before succumbing to one of the longestrunning economic crises in financial history that would come to be known as the lost decade. This book explores the substantial and dynamic innovations of the wartime era, identifying this.
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