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JAPANESE ECONOMY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 19, 2017
How the prime minister can win over Japan's neighbors
Pulling South Korea and Indonesia into the TPP tent would make the free trade pact all the more meaningful.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 13, 2017
When the world turns Japanese
Tokyo and the West alike are failing to heed Japan's economic lessons.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 12, 2017
A silver-lining for graying Japan
Graying Japan faces a long list of daunting challenges, but it still has great potential.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 23, 2017
Private equity will do a lot of good for Japan Inc.
Private equity has the potential to shake up Japan's cozy, stagnant corporate world, and in the process help revive it from its long productivity slump.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 21, 2017
Japan's quality bubble explains its flat-lined GDP
Recognizing Japan's quality bubble is the first step to appreciating and assessing its significant value.
EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2017
Learning from overseas M&A cases that went wrong
Japanese companies that have an appetite for overseas M&As should first learn from the mistakes of others.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 20, 2017
Japan's booming and now needs more immigrants
Japan is favoring more machines over increased immigration to bolster its dwindling workforce, but that solution won't increase domestic consumption.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 17, 2017
For the sake of productivity, put a woman in charge
A shift from long hours to efficient, goal-oriented work is exactly the right medicine for white-collar Japan
EDITORIALS
Aug 15, 2017
Economy picking up speed
Without wages hikes it will be difficult to turn the economy's continuing uptrend into sustained growth.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 15, 2017
The Democratic Party's existential crisis
To retake the reins of power, the DP must be ready to offer voters a genuine alternative of the kind Japan hasn't seen in decades.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 9, 2017
Japan buries cherished economic ideas
Japan's experience underscores a disturbing truth: Economists really have no idea how inflation works.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 8, 2017
The Bank of Japan's head deserves a second term
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should let BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda finish the work he started.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2017
Japan Inc. might finally have to fatten paychecks
After years of resisting wage hikes, Japanese companies are starting to recognize the need to lock in staff before they literally disappear.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 27, 2017
Japan doesn't need fiscal stimulus, economic adviser says
With the economy growing above its potential rate, the nation needs structural reforms rather than a big dose of government spending, according to Susumu Takahashi, a member of the government's economic and fiscal policy council.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 26, 2017
Why the BOJ's lips remain sealed on exit strategy
The central bank doesn't want to talk about why it's lagging behind its peers.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Japan brings forward deadline for electronic travel authorization system
Japan is planning to implement by March 2029 a new online screening system in which foreign visitors who don’t need a visa apply for a certification before entering the country.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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