Japan
June 22, 2021
Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
Japan , 22 June 2021
In this blog, I focus each time on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade in a certain country or territory in terms of how Location Factors (Political, Economic, Technological, Ecological, Legal, and Cultural) and Entry Modes (e.g. M&As, Export, and Greenfield) impact the attractiveness - or vice versa - the risks of FDI and International Trade in the specific country or territory.
Japan – Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade
Japan
Capital: Tokyo
Population: 126,264,931
Main Religion: Shinto
GDP per Capita (PPP): $42,338
GNI per Capita (PPP): $43,880
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) takes into account the standards of living in a country.
Source: 2019, World Bank
Information and Data on FDI and International Trade
Foreign investment in Japan - Santandertrade.com
Foreign trade figures of Japan - Economic and Political Overview - Lloyds Bank International Trade Portal (lloydsbanktrade.com)
Japan - United States Department of State
Macro Data
Japan | Data (worldbank.org)
Japan and the IMF
General Information and Political Information
Japan - The World Factbook (cia.gov)
Japan country profile - BBC News
Research Papers and Research Books
Potential for inward foreign direct investment in Japan - ScienceDirect
Macroeconomic, institutional, and sectoral determinants of outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from Japan - Chiappini - - Pacific Economic Review - Wiley Online Library
Foreign direct investment with host country market structures, with empirical application to Japan - ScienceDirect
Economic Partnership Agreement between Mexico and Japan and Its Impact on Foreign Direct Investment – A Strategic Analysis | Emerald Insight
Inbound foreign direct investment in Japan: A typology - ScienceDirect
The Stagnation of Growth Momentum in Japan and Asian NIEs: From the Perspective of Foreign Direct Investment | SpringerLink
EconPapers: Population Ageing and FDI Inflows in Japan: ARDL Approach to Cointegration Analysis (repec.org)
Foreign direct investment and temporary workers in Japan - ScienceDirect
Staying alive by going glocal | Taylor & Francis Group (taylorfrancis.com)
US–Japan Trade Frictions: The Past, the Present, and Implications for the US–China Trade War - Urata - 2020 - Asian Economic Policy Review - Wiley Online Library
Imbalance of carbon emissions embodied in the US-Japan trade: temporal change and driving factors - ScienceDirect
Embodied carbon dioxide flow in international trade: A comparative analysis based on China and Japan - ScienceDirect
The South Korea-Japan Trade Dispute in Context: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Chemicals, and Concentrated Supply Chains by Samuel Goodman, John VerWey, Dan Kim :: SSRN
Economic Interdependence and Peace: a Case Comparison Between the US-China and US-Japan Trade Disputes | SpringerLink
An emergy and decomposition assessment of China-Japan trade: Driving forces and environmental imbalance - ScienceDirect
Litigating, Arbitrating and Mediating Japan-Korea Trade and Investment Tensions 54 Journal of World Trade 2020 (heinonline.org)
Growing Interdependency Between China and Japan: Trade, Investment, Tourism, and Education | SpringerLink
The new politics of trade: EU-Japan: Journal of European Integration: Vol 39, No 7 (tandfonline.com)
Sustainability | Free Full-Text | Export Diversification and Ecological Footprint: A Comparative Study on EKC Theory among Korea, Japan, and China (mdpi.com)
Export of dissolved iron from river catchments in northeast Japan | SpringerLink
Hydrogen import pathway comparison framework incorporating cost and social preference: Case studies from Australia to Japan - Chapman - 2017 - International Journal of Energy Research - Wiley Online Library
Balancing Between Legality and Illegality: Russian Import of Japa...: Ingenta Connect
The Import Structure of LNG from Russia to Japan by Cognitive Map and Text Analysis | SpringerLink
CROSS‐BORDER M&As AND FIRM VALUE: A COMPARISON OF CHINA‐ AND US‐JAPAN M&As - Chikamoto - 2016 - Contemporary Economic Policy - Wiley Online Library
Public Policy and Politics via Documentaries and in-Depth TV NewsPrograms
Documentaries and in-Depth TV News programs usually reflect a certain viewpoint. ZRB
Why Japan's Women Problem Is Hard to Fix - YouTube
Finding Love In Japan | 101 East - YouTube
In Japan, career women challenge cultural norms - YouTube
Ageing Japan: The burden of a graying planet | 101 East - YouTube
How do Okinawans live longer than anyone else? - YouTube
Japan Population: Labour shortage threatens Japanese economy - YouTube
Repopulating a Japanese town - YouTube
History and Important History Events
General History
A History of Japan - Conrad Totman - Google Books
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Full article: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Summary of the Human Consequences, 1945-2018, and Lessons for Homo sapiens to End the Nuclear Weapon Age (tandfonline.com)
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb | Semantic Scholar
Radiation and Risk of Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreatic Cancers among Atomic Bomb Survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 1958–2009 | Radiation Research (allenpress.com)
Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan - ScienceDirect
Other Issues
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan - Maxime Polleri, 2020 (sagepub.com)
Research activities on nuclear reactor physics and thermal-hydraulics in Japan after Fukushima-Daiichi accident: Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology: Vol 55, No 6 (tandfonline.com)
Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster on the Oil-Consuming Sectors of Japan: Journal of Comparative Asian Development: Vol 16, No 2 (tandfonline.com)
Fukushima: U.S. Response and the Short-Term Impact on U.S.-Japan Trade in Fish and Seafood - ProQuest
The changing risk perception towards nuclear power in China after the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan - ScienceDirect
Association between the detection rate of thyroid cancer and the external radiation dose-rate after the nuclear power plant accidents in Fukushima, Japan (nih.gov)