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ABENOMICS

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.
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 / Japan
Aug 7, 2017
The LDP's tobacco addiction tells a much bigger story
If Prime Minister Abe and his party were less beholden to vested interests, his efforts to defeat deflation would gain more traction.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 29, 2017
Labor reforms come up short for Japan's 'precariat'
The costs of not improving the lot of nonregular workers are enormous in terms of thwarted careers, social status, poverty — and even isolation, as they have a much lower marriage rate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 28, 2017
Abe won't abandon key economic goals as he pushes for constitutional reform, adviser says
Japan will press ahead simultaneously with economic reform and constitutional changes as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tries to revive his declining popularity, according to lawmaker Yasutoshi Nishimura, who advises the prime minister.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2017
Takatoshi Ito, who sold Kuroda on inflation targets, now contender for top job
During countless shared lunches and impromptu meetings, Takatoshi Ito made a detailed and persuasive case that sold Haruhiko Kuroda on the inflation targeting regime he's pursued relentlessly as governor of the central bank. That was back in 1999, when Kuroda ran Japan's currency policy at the Finance...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jul 25, 2017
Wages shape up as key to Abenomics and the future of Abe himself
To shore up his ailing administration, Shinzo Abe is vowing to focus on the economy. But instead of unleashing yet more stimulus, analysts say the prime minister needs to take a hammer to an old chestnut: moribund wage growth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 6, 2017
Experts say key criteria aligning in Japan's long battle to escape deflation
Japan's economy is running the hottest relative to capacity since the global financial crisis. More than four years after the Bank of Japan launched its radical monetary easing, key conditions are aligning in its long battle to truly escape from deflation.
EDITORIALS
Jun 6, 2017
The tight labor market and stagnant wages
Despite the tight labor market, wage growth remains stagnant and personal consumption weak.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 30, 2017
Abe adviser Ito touts minimum wage hike, taxing cash hoards
Targeted measures to push Japanese wages and inflation higher should be used instead of deploying additional monetary or fiscal stimulus, according to Takatoshi Ito, an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 18, 2017
45 new skyscrapers to dot Tokyo's skyline by 2020 Olympics
Tokyo's skyline is set to welcome 45 new skyscrapers by the time the city hosts the Olympics in 2020, as a surge of buildings planned in the early years of Abenomics near completion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 14, 2017
BOJ's dilemma between price stability and financial stability
It may be time for the BOJ to provide more reasonable projections about the time by which it can achieve 2 percent inflation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 8, 2017
Japan suffers from the grand illusion of prosperity
There are so many reasons to hate your job, if you're lucky enough to have one. The top four, according to Spa! magazine, are: stagnant salaries; a sense of being underappreciated and underevaluated; an overriding, unfocused anxiety; and a lost sense of purpose.
EDITORIALS
Apr 7, 2017
Fifth year for BOJ monetary easing
The past four years have shown that the BOJ's monetary easing policy alone cannot end the state of deflation that Abe has vowed to bust.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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