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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2015
Debt and deflation deja vu
Seven years after the global financial crisis, leverage worldwide is higher than ever, and aggregate demand is still insufficient to drive robust growth.
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2015
August spending, jobs data temper recession fears
Household spending rose in August for the first time in three months and job availability improved to the best in more than two decades, signs that could temper concerns the economy has fallen into yet another recession.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2015
Good reasons not to panic over China's troubles
While there are legitimate reasons to be concerned, there's good cause to believe China isn't about to deal capitalism another near-death experience.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2015
China wants great power, not responsibility
Beijing still believes money can buy the trust and soft power it craves, but as long as the government's pronouncements aren't seen as genuinely reliable, skepticism about the yuan will only grow.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2015
Advent of yuan diplomacy
China has been transforming from a follower of rules to a rule maker and even a rule breaker thanks to the weight of its economy.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2015
Fear of a currency war grows
The Chinese central bank's major devaluation of the yuan this week has large parts of Asia now worried about the prospects of a currency war.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2015
Japan's food self-sufficiency rate fails to meet lowered 45% target
Japan's food self-sufficiency rate was 39 percent in fiscal 2014 for the fifth consecutive year, failing to meet the lowered government target of 45 percent, farm ministry data showed Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jul 24, 2015
Mexico poverty rate hit 46.2% last year as 2 million more join ranks of poor
Two million more Mexicans fell into poverty between 2012 and 2014, government data showed on Thursday, highlighting the challenges President Enrique Pena Nieto faces in meeting pledges to lift millions out of need.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 18, 2015
Cabinet approval rating nose-dives after ruling camp rams through security bills
The approval rating of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet plummets to its lowest level since December 2012 after the ruling camp rams its controversial security bills through the Lower House.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 24, 2015
Women in Okinawa have Japan's best recipe for liberty, fertility and longevity
Women in Okinawa have more babies and live longer than women from almost anywhere else in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Jun 21, 2015
Fertility rate dips again
Improving the employment situation for young people and working mothers is key to raising the nation's birthrate.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 29, 2015
Japan April job availability up to 1.17, best in 23 years
Japan's job availability improved in April to its best level in around 23 years while the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in 18 years, with companies willing to hire more workers on the back of an economic recovery, the government said Friday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 30, 2015
Fed signals plans to set rate hike stage with just a phone test, for now
The Federal Reserve has set up a new system for holding press conferences by telephone, increasing the central bank's flexibility to explain an interest rate hike in months when one of its quarterly press sessions is not already scheduled.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 27, 2015
Japanese companies using the weak yen to beat profit targets
If you're searching for Japanese companies likely to beat earnings forecasts this quarter, one good place to start is the currency assumptions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 7, 2015
Weak job data ease rate hike jitters, lift Wall Street
U.S. stocks rose on Monday as expectations the Federal Reserve will push any interest rate increases further into the year offset concerns over Friday's surprisingly weak jobs report.
EDITORIALS
Apr 1, 2015
Nation's food self-sufficiency rate
Instead of setting excessively high targets for food self-sufficiency, maintaining an open trade system and diverse sources of food imports should be the priority for Japan in its quest for food security.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 13, 2015
Government to support matchmaking, men's child-rearing to raise birthrate
The government plans to devise a series of measures to fight the nation's low birthrate, such as promoting matchmaking and setting numerical targets for increasing men's participation in child care, according to a draft policy outline obtained Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2015
Tepco to mull rate hike if it can't restart Niigata nuclear complex
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it will need to consider raising electricity rates for the first time since 2012 unless it can restart the world's biggest nuclear plant.
EDITORIALS
Feb 13, 2015
Negative savings rates loom
The first-ever annual drop in Japan's household savings rate into negative territory might have been the result of people's rush to buy goods before the consumption tax hike last April. Yet, the long-term downtrend in the savings rate is forecast to continue.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2015
U.S. wages lagging and no one knows why
The U.S. unemployment rate has dropped from a peak of 10 percent in October 2009 to 5.6 percent at the end of 2014. Yet, hourly wage gains haven't accelerated. Economists are baffled.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
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.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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