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BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2016
Death and inheritance taxes: Japan's financial advisory firms enter the delicate but bountiful fray
Elderly Japanese, among the world's richest retirees, are flocking to inheritance advisers, tackling historical taboos on discussing death and providing a rare avenue of growth for the country's brokerages and banks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 27, 2016
Corporate Japan much more downbeat about escape from deflation: poll
Japan Inc. has become increasingly pessimistic about the country's ability to beat deflation, with the vast majority of firms now expecting no escape for the foreseeable future, a poll says.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 19, 2016
Time to burn ¥10,000 bills?
Japan has a technology problem: it's called paper money. Can a digital currency cure the economy's woes?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 17, 2016
Five lessons from Japan's negative-rate experiment
Japan's experiment with negative interest rates suggests the need for even greater qualifications to the already cautious assessments of unconventional monetary policies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 14, 2016
Market would have been worse without negative rate, Kuroda says
The nation's financial markets would have been in worse shape if the Bank of Japan had not adopted a negative interest rate, BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said, rejecting suggestions the new policy has been counterproductive.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 13, 2016
BOJ to debate exempting $90 billion in short-term funds from negative rates
The Bank of Japan's policy board is set to discuss this week whether to exempt $90 billion in short-term funds from its newly imposed negative interest rate, people familiar with the matter said, after the securities industry warned that investment money would be driven into bank deposits.
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.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 8, 2016
The wrong way out for Japan
Neither negative interest rates nor further expansion of the BOJ's already huge program of quantitative easing will be sufficient to offset the strong deflationary forces that Japan now faces.
EDITORIALS
Feb 2, 2016
Will Kuroda's gamble work?
The latest BOJ step appears to point to the limits of what the central bank alone can do to achieve its goal of ending deflation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 13, 2016
Japan can endure yen's gains, says Kuroda's former deputy
While Japan has breathing space before the yen's gains become a serious problem for the economy, policymakers are unlikely to stand by should it climb too fast or if key inflation measures slump, according to Takatoshi Ito, a former colleague of central bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 29, 2015
Yen guru Gyohten says Abe must stimulate economy, as BOJ has done its part
Toyoo Gyohten, a former currency policy chief at the Finance Ministry, says 2016 will be the year for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to take up the mantle of stimulus from the Bank of Japan, which has done all it can to revive the economy.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2015
BOJ keeps policy unchanged despite latest recession, weak inflation
The Bank of Japan left its monetary stimulus unchanged on Thursday, signaling Japan's second recession since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office isn't enough to alter Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's view that the inflationary trend is improving.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2015
Kuroda's call for firms to do more to fight deflation seen indicating BOJ's out of QQE ammo
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda J is urging companies to do more to tackle deflation, a tacit admission that his massive money-printing exercise has failed and policymakers are losing faith in the point of delivering more of the same.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 24, 2015
Japan may miss 2% inflation target but achieve it later, deputy economy minister says
Japan's target of achieving 2 percent inflation by next September may be delayed as China's economic slowdown affects the price of oil and other natural resources, according to Yasutoshi Nishimura, the deputy economy minister.

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