Abstract
This book is the result of a long-term collaboration between the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics; the Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa; and the East–West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii on structural and institutional change in Japan. Our earlier research focused on structural changes in Japan’s economy during the 1990s. The present project investigates theevolution of economic and political institutions in Japan, with particular emphasis on the recent economic crisis. Institutional change is a vast topic.While our volume addresses only a limited number of issues, we hope that it will provide fresh perspectives on the slowly accumulating changes that are transforming institutions in twenty-first century Japan.