Presenting the major English language work on the Japanese economy in the twentieth century, the papers in this collection cover a broad area, and include topics such as pre-war Japanese growth and development, post-war growth, international trade and the theory of the Japanese firm. In addition to studies of Japanese factor endowments and the impact of pre-war history on the nation's capitalism, the work in this set also includes major literature on the nature of Japan's comparative advantage and the way in which this has shaped Japanese trade.