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Richard Katz

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What Holds Japan Back

And How Economic Reforms Could Overcome a Hidebound Old Guard

January 31, 2024

Why Nobody Invests in Japan

Tokyo’s Failure to Welcome Foreign Capital Is Hobbling Its Economy

October 13, 2021

Japan’s Looming Climate Showdown

Tokyo Has a Chance to Break Its Coal Addiction—and Spark a Regional Energy Revolution

April 21, 2021

Trump Retreats on Korean Trade

KORUS Is Safe for Now

September 15, 2017

Trump and Japan

Reality Check for Abe and the President

February 16, 2017

Trading Down

Is the TPP Making the United States a Less Benign Hegemon?

September 21, 2016

Free Trade and the TPP

Will Republicans Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

October 7, 2015

Trade Trials

Getting TPP Right Is Better than Getting It Fast

May 12, 2015

Zombie Abenomics

Japan’s Missing Economic Revival

November 20, 2014

Voodoo Abenomics

Japan’s Failed Comeback Plan

Why Chinese-Japanese Economic Relations Are Improving

Delinking Trade From Politics

December 30, 2013

Blind Oracle

A Response to “Never Saw It Coming”

Response Jan/Feb 2014

Mutual Assured Production

Why Trade Will Limit Conflict Between China and Japan

Manufacturing Globalization

The Real Sources of U.S. Inequality and Unemployment

Richard Katz, Robert Z. Lawrence, and Michael Spence

Response Nov/Dec 2011

The Japan Fallacy

Today’s U.S. Financial Crisis Is Not Like Tokyo’s “Lost Decade”

Comparing Crises

Is the Current Economic Collapse Like Japan’s in the 1990s?

Robert Madsen and Richard Katz

Response May/June 2009

What Next for Japan?

Richard Katz and Peter Ennis

August 1, 2007

How Able Is Abe?

Richard Katz and Peter Ennis

Japan’s Phoenix Economy