The economy has been recovering moderately, the government said Monday in retaining its assessment for the third straight month in August. Buoyed by the effects of an extra budget for fiscal 2016, the government upgraded its evaluation of public investment, which is now viewed as ...
The economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.6 percent during the April-June period in price-adjusted real terms to mark the sixth straight quarter of expansion, according to the average estimate of 12 private-sector think tanks. The think tanks believe that the pace of growth ...
Japan's stockpile of plutonium kept inside and outside the country fell slightly at the end of 2016 from a year earlier with the restart of nuclear reactors using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, the Cabinet Office said Tuesday. The decrease of around 1 ton to about ...
The Cabinet Office said Monday it has revised downward the composite index of coincident economic indicators for April. The revised coincident CI, which reflects current economic conditions, stood at 117.1 against 100 for the base year of 2010, down from 117.7 in the preliminary report ...
The government is set to revise up its basic assessment of Japan's economy for the first time in six months in an upcoming monthly report, sources said Wednesday. The revision will reflect solid personal spending, the sources said. In its May report, the government said that ...
Two senior government officials deny making the smoking-gun remarks linked to them in the Kake Gakuen document leak, pitting the education ministry against Prime Minister Abe’s Cabinet.
A Cabinet Office panel of experts on Thursday effectively confirmed that Japan's current economic expansion continued for a 53rd consecutive month in April, making it the third-longest in the postwar period. The panel, headed by Rissho University Professor Hiroshi Yoshikawa, judged that the economy did ...
Capital spending by Japanese companies rose 4.5 percent year-on-year in the January-March quarter, reaching the highest level in nine years, the Finance Ministry said Thursday, providing evidence that the economy has been picking up momentum. Business investment by all non-financial sectors for purposes such as ...
Business confidence among Japanese workers with jobs sensitive to the health of the country's economy fell in March for the third consecutive month, due partly to a deteriorating retail environment, the government said Monday. The seasonally adjusted index of sentiment among workers sensitive to economic ...
A record 65.9 percent of the public is satisfied with society as a whole, though growing numbers are concerned about Japan's direction in foreign and defense policy, a government survey revealed over the weekend. The satisfaction rate rose 3.9 points from the previous survey last ...
The nation's elderly are more confident in their abilities to avoid falling victim to so-called special fraud cases, including remittance scams, than younger people, and are less prepared to take measures against it, a government survey showed Saturday. By age group, 50.7 percent of the ...
Japan's seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in December rose by 6.7 percent from the previous month, the Cabinet Office said Thursday. Private-sector orders excluding those for ships and power equipment, closely watched as a leading indicator of corporate capital spending, totaled ¥889.8 billion. In November, ...
