Blog post
15 September 2022
Shinzo Abe’s economic legacy: a glass half full
Abenomics has fallen short in many ways, but Japan has still largely coped with an aging society while maintaining a high level of income equality.
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Comment
16 February 2022
East-west divergence in central bank action will not last much longer
Fed shift towards raising rates will make it hard for China and Japan not to tighten monetary policy.
Podcast
12 January 2022
Understanding Japan’s economic relations with China
What can Europe learn?
Podcast
18 November 2020
Sizing up the world's largest trade deal
What should be Europe's strategy towards the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)?
Event
22 October 2020
How can the EU and Japan boost collaboration and multilateralism around the globe?
Multilateralism and global collaboration: the case of Japan and the EU.
Blog post
12 December 2019
Japanese economy: Déjà vu – but worse
It is difficult to imagine how Japan can undertake any major economic reform if it has taken five years to increase the consumption tax and has needed
Event
24 October 2019
Competition policy in the era of AI – the case of Japan and Europe
How can artificial intelligence have a positive impact on the economy? How does AI impact competition policy? How can the EU and Japan become leaders
Blog post
11 October 2019
Implications of the Japan – United States Mini Trade Agreement
Details of the US-Japan mini-trade deal are lacking but the agreements’ direct impact on the US and Japanese economies is likely to be minuscule. The
Comment
13 May 2019
Will China’s trade war with the US end like that of Japan in the 1980s?
The outcome of the US-China trade war is anticipated to be quite different from the experience of Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, due to China’s relativ
Policy brief
13 December 2018
Forecast errors and monetary policy normalisation in the euro area
What did we learn from the recent monetary policy normalisation experiences of Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom? Zsolt Darvas consider
Podcast
26 October 2018
Backstage: Japan’s inflation problem and monetary policy options
Bruegel senior fellow Zsolt Darvas welcomes Sayuri Shirai, professor at Keio University, visiting scholar at the Asian Development Bank Institute and
Podcast
17 October 2018
Backstage: The new balance of Asia-EU-US trade relations
Amid the Asia-Europe Economic Forum on the fringes of the 12th ASEM Summit, Bruegel senior fellow hosts a conversation on developing global trade rela
Podcast
04 October 2018
Backstage: Implications of the new EU-Japan trade deal
Bruegel senior fellow André Sapir welcomes Tamotsu Nakamura, dean of Kobe University’s Graduate School of Economics, and Maria Åsenius, head of cabine
Event
03 October 2018
International trade and the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
This event; jointly organised by Bruegel and the Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, will discuss the EU-Japan trade deal and asses its imp
External publication
03 October 2018
The EU - Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
This paper was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade (INTA) and analyses the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
Comment
20 September 2018
Japan must boost R&D to keep rising Chinese rivals at bay
As China shifts into a more advanced industrialised economy, Japan has slowly but surely lost to some of its comparative advantages to its rival. One