Richard Katz

Trade   Sep 15, 2017 Snapshot

Trump Retreats on Korean Trade

Trump dropped the plan to withdraw from KORUS—at least for now.

Richard Katz

Trump Administration   Feb 16, 2017 Snapshot

Trump and Japan

Goodwill between Trump and Abe won't last for long.

Richard Katz

Trade   Sep 21, 2016 Snapshot

Trading Down

The United States may be on the verge of walking away from a trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that it virtually wrote.

Richard Katz

Trade   Oct 7, 2015 Snapshot

Free Trade and the TPP

In a surprising development, it is Congressional Republicans and a few of their business allies that now pose the biggest threat to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...

Richard Katz

Economic Development   Nov 20, 2014 Postscript

Zombie Abenomics

Abe’s economic revival is hardly going as planned. A consumption tax hike that he introduced in April triggered a recession over the following six months, prompting...

Richard Katz

Economics   July/August 2014 Essay

Voodoo Abenomics

Shinzo Abe is trying to restore Japanese consumer confidence by boosting inflation. But confidence must rest on something more substantive: meaningful structural...

Richard Katz

Economic Development   Dec 30, 2013 Postscript

Why Chinese-Japanese Economic Relations Are Improving

When it comes to Japan, China seems torn. On security issues, it is increasingly hawkish. But on economic ties -- from Japanese imports to Japanese investments -- it...

Richard Katz

Economics   January/February 2014 Response

Blind Oracle

A Response to "Never Saw It Coming"

Richard Katz

Economics   July/August 2013 Comment

Mutual Assured Production

Tensions between China and Japan are rising, but an economic version of mutual deterrence is preserving the uneasy status quo. Put simply, China needs to buy Japanese...

Richard Katz

Economics   November/December 2011 Response

Manufacturing Globalization

Is globalization to blame for rising unemployment and income inequality in the United States? Richard Katz and Robert Lawrence argue that other factors are at fault....

Richard Katz; Robert Z. Lawrence; Michael Spence

Economics   May/June 2009 Response

Comparing Crises

Does the current financial crisis resemble Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s? It may be even worse, argues Robert Madsen. Not so, replies Richard Katz.

Robert Madsen; Richard Katz

Economics   March/April 2009 Comment

The Japan Fallacy

The financial crisis of 2008 is not a replay of Japan’s “lost decade” of the 1990s. The current crisis is the result of correctable policy mistakes rather than deep...

Richard Katz

Politics & Society   Aug 1, 2007 Postscript

What Next for Japan?

Richard Katz and Peter Ennis's update to their March/April 2007 essay "How Able Is Abe?"

Richard Katz and Peter Ennis

Japan   March/April 2007 Essay

How Able Is Abe?

Shinzo Abe has had a tough act to follow since succeeding the charismatic Junichiro Koizumi as Japan's prime minister. Abe has already shown himself to be adept in the...

Richard Katz and Peter Ennis

Economics   January/February 2003 Essay

Japan's Phoenix Economy

It is hard to be optimistic about Japan's economy, given that Tokyo has already frittered away a decade. But a corner has been turned. The Japanese people increasingly...

Richard Katz