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Japan's fiscal health goal likely to be pushed back another five years to 2025
The government is eyeing fiscal 2025 as its new target year to achieve a primary balance surplus, delaying the fiscal health goal by another five years, sources said Wednesday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has already given up on its previous target year of fiscal ...
The decoupling of economic growth and convenience
Consumers have begun to behave more rationally, and that is reducing economic growth.
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that it expects the Japanese economy to grow 1.2 percent in 2018, maintaining the projection it made in January. In its latest World Economic Outlook report the IMF also kept intact its 2019 growth forecast for Japan, at 0.9 ...
Japan to study measures to mitigate impact of 2019 sales tax hike
The government will examine steps to soften the impact of a consumption tax hike to be applied next year after a previous increase dampened consumption, the top government spokesman said Friday. A task force involving officials from relevant ministries was launched on Friday, and the ...
Japan's current account surplus shrinks to ¥2.08 trillion in February
Japan reported a current account surplus of ¥2.08 trillion ($19 billion) in February, with the figure having shrunk from a year ago due to a smaller trade surplus and a stronger yen, government data showed Monday. Despite a 28.7 percent drop in the current account ...
Making Japan a major force in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The government must do more to cope with the major wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Recovery in car exports to the U.S. in February helps Japan's industrial output rise 4.1%
Industrial production in February rose 4.1 percent, rebounding from a sharp fall the previous month due to a recovery in exports of cars to the United States, government data showed Friday. The lower-than-expected increase in production follows a downwardly revised 6.8 percent drop in January, ...
Japan posted a goods trade surplus of ¥3.41 billion ($32.1 million) in February amid continued strength in exports, but rising energy imports weighed on the black ink, government data showed Monday. The trade surplus came as exports rose 1.8 percent from a year earlier to ...
Why Japan will never reach its inflation target
After five years of unprecedented stimulus, BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda should recognize reality.
The third and most crucial "arrow" of Abenomics — structural reform — must be carried out to achieve sustained economic growth.
Japan lowers assessment as January industrial output falls 6.6%
The nation's industrial production in January fell by a bigger-than-expected 6.6 percent from the previous month on weakness among carmakers, prompting the government to lower its basic assessment for the first time in over two years, industry ministry data showed Wednesday. The seasonally adjusted index ...
Japan asks wrong question about Olympic Games
Only bold reforms, not sporting events, will ensure the big wins that Abenomics promises
