The government said Monday it has revised upward its economic assessment for two of 11 regions nationwide due to a pickup in personal spending and improvement in employment conditions.
In its quarterly survey, the Cabinet Office revised its assessment of the Tokai region centering on Nagoya to "strongly recovering" from "recovering." It was the strongest wording in the scale of five grades of economic assessment.
A government official attributed the powerful economic recovery in the region to firm automobile production and booming public works projects led by the construction of an international airport and facilities for the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture.
The Cabinet Office's assessment of the Chugoku region was revised to "recovering" from "slowly recovering."
For the remaining nine regions, the assessment was left unchanged from the previous survey in February.