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ABENOMICS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 4, 2016
Abe taps finance researcher for Bank of Japan's divided board
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government nominated an international finance researcher to the Bank of Japan's divided board to fill the seat of a retiring member who recently voted against expanding monetary stimulus.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 1, 2016
Sharp's alive, and that's too bad
Letting the electronics maker and other troubled companies die is a necessary part of reanimating Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 1, 2016
Japan's household spending falls for fifth straight month in January
Household spending dropped for the fifth straight month in January, falling an inflation-adjusted 3.1 percent from a year earlier due to unusually warm weather, the government said Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 1, 2016
Japan's October-December business investment up 8.5%, but outlook dim
Capital spending by Japanese firms climbed 8.5 percent in the October-December period from a year earlier, the government said Tuesday, but a decline in corporate profits and an uncertain global economy may dampen business investment in the future.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 29, 2016
The high price of Japan's economic gaffes
Finance minister Taro Aso's ability to survive repeated gaffes shows how little has changed under Abenomics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 29, 2016
Less than zero in Japan
Japan's economic fundamentals are generally sound, and pessimistic predictions are greatly exaggerated.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 26, 2016
Japan's government talks of postponing 2017 tax hike
The government is ready to postpone a scheduled hike in the consumption tax if the move looks like it would weaken the economy and reduce total tax revenues, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 26, 2016
Japan has reasons to be scared
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe himself seems to have forgotten Abenomics in his quest for Japan to be a 'normal' nation with a constitution to his personal liking.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Feb 26, 2016
Slim raises at Japan's spring wage talks no help to Abe, Kuroda
Shinzo Abe and Haruhiko Kuroda shouldn't look to spring wage talks for much help in spurring inflation and economic growth in Japan.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 23, 2016
As overseas investors flee Japan, BlackRock places bets
As foreign investors flee Tokyo stocks, the world's largest asset manager says the move by the Bank of Japan that spooked the market will be one of the main things that pushes it back up.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 18, 2016
Economic council calls for new stimulus steps to address global risks
Private-sector members of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on Thursday called for potential stimulus measures to be studied to address downside risks to the global economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / CABINET INTERVIEW
Feb 18, 2016
New economic minister Ishihara believes recovery underway
Facing reporters in one of his first interviews since being named Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister, Nobuteru Ishihara said Wednesday the economy is making a steady recovery despite recent sharp falls in stock prices and the negative growth logged in the final three months of 2015.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 17, 2016
Polls show Abe is riding out storm of bad news
The opposition camp is failing to gain any traction with the public by lashing out at Abenomics or the scandals that have beset the Abe administration.
EDITORIALS
Feb 16, 2016
Japan's fragile economy
The latest GDP data underlines the frail state of the economy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 16, 2016
How BOJ can boost growth
It's time for less talk and more action on radical policies as weak growth and deflation stalk the economy.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 16, 2016
Japanese household spending falls 2.7%
Monthly household spending in 2015 fell 2.7 percent in price-adjusted real terms to ¥247,126, the government said Tuesday. It was the second straight year of decline.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2016
Hedge fund says Abenomics-fueled era of easy gains is over
Stats Investment Management Co., whose hedge fund posted a positive return in each of the past 10 years, said the era of easy gains in the Japanese stock market fueled by Abenomics is over.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 15, 2016
Limits of central bank policy
The Bank of Japan's decision to adopt a minus interest rates could be immediately rendered meaningless by highly unpredictable political and economic trends abroad.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 13, 2016
With Tokyo stocks set to sink deeper, analysts look to G-20 forum for hope
Many are analysts pointing their finger at the BOJ's decision to adopt a negative interest rate policy as a key factor behind the risk-averse mood in the markets.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 13, 2016
Bank of Japan talking with global peers about turmoil in markets
The Bank of Japan has been communicating with officials around the world over turmoil in financial markets, Deputy Gov. Hiroshi Nakaso said, as stocks tumble and the yen surges.

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