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Enforce Japan’s Anti-Discrimination Laws: How to Raise Wages

posted by Richard Katz on September 04, 2015

Found in Japan, categorized in Politics

Tags: Richard Katz TOE Abe Japan innovation Nicholas Lardy Matthew Brummer

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Japan’s challenge is to maintain technological prominence as it shifts to a service economy. Services are based on many characteristics not common in Japan, starting with the use of English.

Abstract

Richard Katz's September issue of TOE includes reports on How to Raise Wages, For Now, Abe Polls Bounce, Abe Opens Door with Statement on War, Abe’s Careful Speech, Economy Watch, an interview with Nicholas Lardy on China's stock market and an interview with Tokyo University assistant professor Matthew Brummer, an expert on innovation, to understand Japan’s status as a “tech power.”
 

About Richard Katz

Richard Katz is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, the New York correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese business magazine, and formerly the editor of The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly newsletter on Japan.

Mr. Katz has taught about Japan’s economy as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, and as a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.

Mr. Katz is the author of two books on Japan's economic travails and has just finished a third book on reviving entrepreeurship in Japan.

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