Japan’s quest for a sustainable, virtuous circle of growth and innovation

D. Hugh Whittaker

Asia Pacific Business Review, 2024, vol. 30, issue 3, 451-466

Abstract: Large Japanese corporations which have accumulated substantial reserves are now under pressure to spend them, but on what, or on whom? Should they increase their (domestic) capital and R&D expenditure, which languished between 2000 and 2020; or invest more in their employees, whose wages have stagnated; or increase their shareholder returns, which have already surged; or raise executive remuneration closer to overseas counterparts? This article examines tensions in recent developments in Japan’s political economy, from Society 5.0 to Kishida’s ‘new form of capitalism’ and Keidanren’s ‘rebuilding the middle class’, from the perspective of these dilemmas.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2024.2320537

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