Promoting economic development through policy decentralisation in Japan: Ivan Turok looks at Japan's initial attempts to address the country's economic woes and widening regional disparities by decentralising and encouraging localities and regions to develop self-sustaining growth and economic development strategies

JAPAN'S POST-WAR economic miracle ran out of steam in the early 1990s. The Japanese Government has since been struggling to find the key to bring about a resurgence in output [...]