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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2021
Japan's October account surplus drops 39% for third straight month
All the while primary income balance grew 11.5%, up for the seventh month in a row, as domestic firms received more dividend payments from their investments.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 9, 2021
Japan's current account surplus falls 31% amid slow car exports
The sagging car exports resulted from output reductions by Japanese automakers due to supply chain disruptions and the prolonged global semiconductor shortage.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2021
Japan logged smaller current account surplus in August
The surplus marked the first year-on-year fall in six months, though Japan remained in the black for the 86th month, helped by rising primary income.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 10, 2021
Japan's January-June current account surplus up 50% on surging exports
The goods trade balance marked a u00a52.3 trillion surplus, a turnaround from the previous year's u00a5973.5 billion deficit, as exports of cars, auto parts and other items rebounded.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 8, 2021
Japan's current account surplus rose 85% in May amid export rebound
In April the surplus posted a more than sixfold jump, with the monthly data suggesting exports have now recovered from a slump last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 8, 2021
Japan's current account surplus rose sixfold in April as trade recovered
The Finance Ministry reported a trade surplus of u00a5289.5 billion, reversing the u00a5926.9 billion deficit recorded a year earlier.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 20, 2021
Japan's exports jump most since 2010 as trade recovery perks up
Global appetite for cars and electronics has picked up since last year, driven by a recovery in the U.S. and Chinese economies — Japan's key markets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 8, 2021
Japan's January current account surplus sees first decline in five months
The current account balance, one of the widest gauges of international trade, registered a surplus of u00a5646.8 billion ($6 billion), down 2.3% from a year ago.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 8, 2021
Japan 2020 travel surplus down 79% as pandemic rocks inbound tourism
The travel balance, which reflects the amount of money foreign visitors spend in Japan versus Japanese spending abroad, saw its first drop since 2015.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 12, 2021
Japan November current account surplus rises 29%, up for third month
In the reporting month, the country's goods trade balance came to a surplus of u00a5616.1 billion, up from a u00a520.0 billion deficit in the previous year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 8, 2020
Japan's October current account surplus grows 15.7% to ¥2.14 trillion
The country's current account surplus expanded 15.7% in October from a year earlier to ¥2.14 trillion ($20 billion), helped by a rise in the trade account amid signs of recovery in auto exports despite uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2020
Japan current account surplus falls in August, but at a slower pace
Weighed down by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Japan's current account surplus for August fell from a year earlier for the sixth straight month, although at a slower pace in line with a gradual resumption of economic activity, government data showed Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 8, 2020
Japan's April current account surplus down 84.2%
Exports dropped 23.0 percent to u00a54.91 trillion as demand for cars and auto parts from the United States fell due to the coronavirus lockdown.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 9, 2020
Japan's returns on foreign investment lift current account surplus to ¥612 billion
The current account surplus in January marked its 67th consecutive month in the black as growing returns on Japan's overseas investments offset a larger deficit in the goods trade, government data showed Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 9, 2019
Japan's current account surplus rose 38% in October
The current account surplus rose 38.0 percent in October from a year earlier, as imports dropped faster than exports amid falling crude oil prices and the prolonged U.S.-China trade conflict, government data showed Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2019
Japan's fiscal 2020 current account surplus projected to top ¥20 trillion
The current account surplus is projected to grow to ¥20.6 trillion in fiscal 2020 from ¥18.6 trillion this fiscal year, according to a forecast Tuesday by the Japan Foreign Trade Council.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 11, 2019
Japan's current account surplus shrank 3.3% in first half
The current account surplus shrank 3.3 percent from the previous year in the first half on weak exports to the rest of Asia amid continuing tensions over the U.S-China trade war, preliminary data showed Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2019
Japan's August current account surplus up 18%
Japan's current account surplus increased 18.3 percent in August from a year earlier as imports declined faster than exports amid the continued effects of the U.S.-China trade conflict, government data showed Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 9, 2019
Diplomatic row with South Korea starts to hurt Japan's current account surplus
Japan's surplus in spending by overseas travelers declined in July from a year earlier as the number of visitors from South Korea tumbled, a sign the souring bilateral relations are taking a toll on the world's third-largest economy.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 10, 2019
Japan's current account surplus in April shrank amid weak exports to China
Japan's current account surplus declined for the second straight month in April to ¥1.71 trillion ($15.7 billion), due partly to sluggish exports to China, government data showed Monday.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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