Japan: Economics in Everyday Life

About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Shigeyuki Abe is Professor of Economics at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University ( Japan), and coeditor of this volume. Yoshitaka Fukui is a Ph.D. candidate in business (accounting) at Carnegie Mellon University (USA). He received his undergraduate law degree at the University of Tokyo in 1985. Teruyuki Higa (deceased) was Professor of Economics at Okinawa International University ( Japan). Susumu Hondai is Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of International Co-operation Studies, Kobe University. Charles Yuji Horioka is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Osaka University ( Japan). Kazuhiro Igawa is Professor of Economics at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University , and coeditor of this volume. Toshiki Jinushi is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics , Kobe University. Akihiko Kawaura is Associate Professor of Economics at Otaru University ( Japan). 211 Gary Kikuchi is Adjunct Instructor of Economics at Syracuse University (USA). Yoko Kimura is Associate Professor of Public Economics at Nara Women’s University ( Japan). Sumner LaCroix is Professor of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA). Matthew Loke is Research Analyst at the Hawaii Medical Services Association, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and Adjunct Faculty at Hawaii Pacific University (USA). Karen Lupardus is Professor of English at Okinawa International University. James Mak is Professor of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and coeditor of this volume. Robert McCleery is Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at Claremont McKenna College (USA). Andrew Mason is Professor of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Research Associate at the East-West Center , Honolulu. Naoki Mitani is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics at Kobe University. Shoji Nishijima is Professor of Economics at the Research Institute of Economics and Business Administration at Kobe University . Kazuo Nishiyama is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. 212 Contributors Naohiro Ogawa is Professor and Deputy Director of the Population Research Institute at Nihon University (Japan). Harry Oshima is Professor (emeritus) of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center. Robert Parry is Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, Kobe University. Shyam Sunder is Richard M. Cyert Professor of Management and Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, and coeditor of this volume. Contributors 213 ...