Beyond describing the characteristics of the Japanese production network, the paper examines the geographic features ... For a given firm, greater distance is associated with better performance ...

The farming villages that exist throughout Tohoku are known for their rice production but struggle with cold-weather crop damage. Many who rely on the single crop this land produces end up leaving ...

as Japanese territory. Rikinobu Funasugi, an associate professor of history and geography at Shimane University, revealed the map as evidence the islets, called Dokdo in South Korea, were ...