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HOUSEHOLD ASSETS

BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2019
Falling share prices pushed Japanese household assets down 0.1% in June
Financial assets held by Japanese households stood at ¥1.86 quadrillion ($17.2 trillion) at the end of June, down 0.1 percent from a year earlier, due largely to a drop in stock prices, the Bank of Japan said Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2016
Japan's household assets hit record high at end of December
Financial assets held by Japanese households hit a record high ¥1,741 trillion ($15.5 trillion) at the end of December, as stocks gained after sell-offs and consumers increased their cash and deposits, data by the Bank of Japan showed Friday.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2015
Japan Post's IPO a decade in the making
The opening of sales Wednesday of shares in Japan Post, whose origins date back to 1871, has been a decade in the making.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2015
With massive IPO of Japan Post, the nation seeks to shake decades of torpor
As Japan prepares this week for the biggest initial public offering in the world since Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in September 2014, the government hopes that the ¥1.5 trillion privatization of the postal service will help revive the country from its 20-year slump.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 19, 2014
'Abenomics' spurs record wealth, providing solace for rising prices
Household wealth has risen to a record level as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe "reflates" the economy, giving a cushion to consumers facing higher costs of living.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 17, 2014
Japanese household assets rose 1.5% in 2012, first increase in six years
The value of assets held by Japanese households at the end of 2012 rose 1.5 percent from a year earlier to ¥2.586 quadrillion, the first increase in six years, the government said Friday in its national accounts report.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Ukraine is far from doomed
When comparing Ukraine’s military situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday

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