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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
An upward revision to Japan's gross domestic product gives the government yet another favorable signal for raising the sales tax next April.
Hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo is likely push up Japan’s gross domestic product by 0.5 percent in that year with positive economic effects worth ¥4.2 trillion.
China has soared almost to the top of the world's economic league tables, but whether the official data underpinning its status can be trusted is a constant headache, analysts say.
Real gross domestic product rose an annualized 2.6 percent in the three months to June, bolstering the Abe administration's claim its economic policies are succeeding.
The economy grew an annualized real 2.6 percent in the three months through June with consumption and exports recuperating, the government said Monday, possibly further swaying Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s fall decision on whether to raise the 5 percent sales tax to 8 percent ...
The International Monetary Fund expressed concern Thursday about the fiscal situation in Japan, where public debt keeps soaring. Simulations by the IMF “suggest that global output losses could reach 2 percent of GDP” if Japan is “exposed to a reconsideration of sovereign risk by ...
Economists are projecting that the economy grew at an annualized rate of around 3 percent in the three months to June, surpassing the government’s growth target for raising the consumption tax next April. The projections, offered in terms of inflation-adjusted gross domestic product, were ...
Britain’s economy expanded by 0.3 percent in the first quarter of 2013 and never experienced a double-dip recession as previously thought, official data showed Thursday. Gross domestic product rebounded in the January-March period after falling by 0.3 percent in the final three months of ...
The economy grew at an annualized rate of 4.1 percent during the first three months of the year in inflation-adjusted terms, upgraded from preliminary data on the back of an upward revision to business investment.
Since we can't be sure whether one poor country’s GDP is higher than another’s, we should not use GDP alone to determine which policies lead to growth.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development put pressure on Japan in a policy proposal issued Tuesday to specify concrete measures to restore the country’s precarious fiscal health, considered the worst among major developed economies. “Given the size and duration of fiscal consolidation, Japan ...
London AFP-JIJI Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced revisions to economic growth forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. He said the economy is expected to avoid sliding into a triple-dip recession in the first quarter of 2013. The forecast for GDP growth ...