Analysis on the Influential Factors of Japanese Economy

School of Economics, the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000, Australia

Corresponding author’s e-mail: angela@cas-harbour.org

Abstract

Japan is known as a highly developed capitalist country. It was the third largest economy in the world by the end of 2017 and is one of the members of G7 and G20. Thus, for academic purpose, it is worth to discuss how Japan could expand the scale of its economy in different kinds of effective ways in the past half a century.

This paper will talk about the main factors to influence the Japanese economy from post-war period to twenty-first century. The Solow-Swan model is used to target on explaining the factors that influence the long-run economic development in an economy. To present the effects that was brought by the past policies, both total GDP calculation and GDP per capita calculation are adopted as the evidence of economic success of Japan.