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The next Economic Survey of Japan will be prepared for 2013.

Japan's economic recovery: Seeking a self-sustained expansion and an end to deflation
Achieving fiscal sustainability in Japan
Japan's new Growth strategy to create demand and jobs
Education reform in Japan
Labour market reforms to improve growth and Equity

Economic Survey of Japan 2009

Overcoming the global crisis: the need for a new growth model
Financial stability: overcoming the crisis and improving the efficiency of the banking sector
The fiscal policy response to the crisis and achieving fiscal sustainability
Health-care reform in Japan: controlling costs, improving quality and ensuring equity
Improving the policy framework in Japan to address climate change

Economic Survey of Japan 2008
Available at Online Bookshop and SourceOECD.  Also see the Policy Brief.

Key challenges to sustaining the expansion in Japan
Bringing an end to deflation under the new monetary policy framework
Achiving progress on fiscal consolidation by controlling government expenditures
Reforming the tax system to promote fiscal sustainability and economic growth
Enhancing the productivity of the service sector in Japan
Reforming the labour market to cope with increasing dualism and population ageing

Economic Survey of Japan 2006

Available at Online Bookshop and  SourceOECD.  Also see the Policy Brief.

Key challenges to sustaining Japan’s improved economic performance
Ensuring a definitive end to deflation and sustaining the soundness of the banking sector
A strategy for fiscal consolidation
Income inequality, poverty and social spending
Upgrading Japan’s innovation system to sustain economic growth
Strengthening the integration of Japan in the world economy to benefit more fully from globalisation

Economic Survey of Japan 2005
Available at Online Bookshop and  SourceOECD.  Also see the Policy Brief.

Key economic challenges facing Japan
Ending deflation and achieving a self-sustained expansion
Achieving fiscal sustainability
Getting the most out of public sector decentralisation
Removing the obstacles to faster growth
Improving the functioning of the labour market

Economic Survey of Japan 2003
Available at Online Bookshop and SourceOECD.  Also see the Policy Brief.

Macroeconomic developments and key economic challenges
Bringing deflation to an end
Achieving fiscal sustainability
Product market competition and economic performance
Further structural reforms to enhance growth

Economic Survey of Japan 2002
Available at Online Bookshop and SourceOECD.  Also see the Policy Brief.

Recent developments: will the cyclical recovery lead to sustained growth?
The policy framework: achievements and evolving challenges
Improving the sources of growth and higher living standards
Human capital, technology and sectoral policies for growth

Economic Survey of Japan 2001
Available at Online Bookshop and SourceOECD.  Also see the Policy Brief.

Recent development: from a modest recovery to contraction
Towards a new overall policy framework
Structural reform to promote growth
Healthcare reform

Economic Survey of Japan 2000
Available at Online Bookshop and SourceOECD

Recent developments: recovery and adjustment
Fiscal, monetary and financial-sector policies
Structural policies to enhance growth and secure recovery: a review of progress
Improving the performance of public spending

Economic Survey of Japan 1999
Available at Online Bookshop and SourceOECD

Recent trends and prospects
Monetary, exchange rate and financial-sector policy and developments
Fiscal policy and medium-term public sector issues
The tax system: a need for comprehensive reform
Structural reforms to revitalise the economy