Contributors -- 1 - The Great Japanese Stagnation: Lessons for Industrial Countries -- 2 - Bank Fragility in Japan, 1995 to 2003 -- 3 - Deposit Insurance, Regulatory Forbearance, and Economic Growth: Implications for the Japanese Banking Crisis -- 4 - Determinants of Voluntary Bank Disclosure: Evidence from Japanese Shinkin Banks -- 5 - Secondary Bank Lending in Japan -- 6 - Monetary Policy in the Great Stagnation -- 7 - The Policy Duration Effect under Zero Interest Rates: An Application of Wavelet Analysis -- 8 - Exchange Rate Passthrough in De.ationary Japan: How Effective Is the Yen's Depreciation for Fighting De.ation? -- 9 - Japan's Imbalance of Payments -- Index.