Economic Challenges Facing Japan's Regional Areas

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-10-7109-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

This book analyzes issues related to economic challenges for Japan’s regional revitalization. Japan’s responses to such challenges and to the problem of an aging population are of deep interest to the nations outside of Japan. This book brings together 19 articles contributed by Japan’s leading scholars, originally prepared for an online policy information portal, SPACE NIRA launched by the Nippon Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA) with Dr. Tatsuo Hatta, President of the Asian Growth Research Institute, as its General Editor. This book is a significant and useful reference for all scholars, students, and individuals with an interest in current policy issues in Japan.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hatta, Tatsuo

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction (Professor Tatsuo Hatta): 

2.Medical and Nursing Care: The Burden on Local Governments 

·Coordinator: Professor Wataru Suzuki

·Paper 1: Designing a New Health Insurance System through Risk Structure Adjustment (Professor Yasushi Iwamoto) 

·Paper 2: Medical and Long-term Nursing Care and Regional Fiscal Policy (Professor Masayoshi Hayashi) 

3.Japan’s Agricultural Policy: Points for Discussion 

·Coordinator: Professor Masayoshi Honma 

·Paper 1: Towards a New Agriculture (Dr. Kazunuki Ohizumi)

·Paper 2: Japan’s Agricultural Policy: Escaping the Ancien Regime (Dr. Kazuhito Yamashita) 

4.Japan’s Tourism Policy (TBA) 

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Tatsuo Hatta is president of the Asia Growth Research Institute and director of Keizai Doyukai’s Policy Study and Analysis Center since April 2013. Dr. Hatta was president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and professor at the University of Tokyo, Osaka University, and Johns Hopkins University.