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JAPANESE ECONOMY

COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 30, 2015
Myth of currency manipulation
Japan's monetary policymakers do not seek to predict, much less control, exchange-rate movements.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 29, 2015
The kabuki art of public apology
Until Japanese CEOs back up their apologies with concrete action, their words will ring hollow — as will government efforts to improve the sorry state of the country's corporate governance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 19, 2015
Grasping the key to innovation
Japan should make 'new combination' innovation the nucleus of its growth strategy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 18, 2015
Japan joins America's presidential campaign
BOJ head Haruhiko Kuroda's recent comments about the yen suggest Washington is very much on Tokyo's mind these days.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 16, 2015
Unfortunately, corporate Japan thinks it's 1985
Japan's biggest companies are greeting reforms aimed at improving corporate governance with a halfhearted shrug.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 10, 2015
Chided by Abe, Japan Inc. starts boosting investment at home
Pressured by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to share some of their record profits, and by increasingly obsolescent equipment, Japan's companies are starting to boost their investment spending.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 9, 2015
The Japanese government's Peter Pan problem
Until the government does its part by loosening labor markets, lowering trade barriers and creating tax incentives to support entrepreneurship, the BOJ's yen printing won't save the day.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 8, 2015
Japan's maverick billionaire bets big abroad
Corporate Japan should seriously consider emulating Softbank CEO's Masayoshi Son's gutsy approach to doing business.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 1, 2015
Hedge fund activists are Japan's best friend
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should leverage the uptick in foreign investment to reignite his economic reform program.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 18, 2015
Disillusionment with Japan
Inevitably observers of Japan are disappointed and disillusioned when they see that Japanese leaders in politics and business are failing to confront the demographic threat and promote the changes needed to achieve a positive future for Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2015
Japan's economy needs a dose of shock therapy
A little more monetary shock-and-awe by the Bank of Japan could stem Japan's 'deflationary mindset.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 19, 2015
Toyota delivers a blow to Abe's 'reshoring' plan
Toyota's move to build new factories overseas deals a blow to the government's hope that the weak yen would encourage manufacturers to move production back to Japan.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 15, 2015
From immigration to zoning, reforms need central guidance to succeed: adviser
The central government must exert control over the regions to push through regulatory reforms needed for economic revival, said the head of a council on special economic zones.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 6, 2015
Japan's battery-powered economic recovery
A renewable-energy boom would do for Japan what quantitative easing can't: produce a thriving economic ecosystem that creates wealth, jobs and international esteem.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 24, 2015
BOJ needs to spread the wealth to rural Japan
The BOJ needs to broaden the impact of the its unprecedented easing program beyond Japan's biggest cities.
EDITORIALS
Mar 24, 2015
Higher wages, but for how many?
The higher wage hikes at leading firms are indeed good news, but that covers only a small proportion of the nation's workforce.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 18, 2015
Toyota's measly wage increase won't help turn Japan around
The government should reengage in old-fashion industrial policy to force companies into being more generous.
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.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
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.
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.
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

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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