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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2016
Japan's carmakers, airlines believe negative rates will help demand
It will not show up in time for this week's earnings release, but Toyota Motor Corp. may have gotten a gift from the Bank of Japan's unconventional policy choices.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 1, 2016
BOJ memo to Abe: your move
Negative rates should spur Prime Minister Abe to be bolder in the fight against slow growth and deflation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Feb 1, 2016
BOJ market magician Kuroda pulls another rabbit from his hat
The Bank of Japan continues to push the boundaries of monetary policy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Jan 30, 2016
Kuroda's negative interest rates shock as BOJ heralds return to currency war
The yen dropped the most in more than a year after Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda unexpectedly adopted negative interest rates, risking another round of competitive devaluations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 29, 2016
What negative rates mean for Japan's savers and borrowers
The Bank of Japan stunned financial markets by adopting an unprecedented negative interest rate on Friday, and as the news sank in analysts began to digest the risks and possible benefits of the move.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 28, 2016
BOJ meets amid backdrop of surprise fall in retail sales
Retail sales unexpectedly declined in December, indicating weakness in consumer spending as the central bank began a two-day meeting Thursday to decide whether to boost monetary stimulus.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 28, 2016
Artificial intelligence predicts BOJ policy on hold this week
The list of areas in which the machines are beating humans can now be expanded to include predicting the Bank of Japan's next moves.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 26, 2016
BOJ officials undecided on more easing
Some Bank of Japan officials view it a close call as to whether the policy board will add to stimulus at a meeting later this week, according to people familiar with discussions at the central bank.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 22, 2016
BOJ on verge of fresh inflation target delay, putting monetary policy under scrutiny
The Bank of Japan is poised, for the third time in less than a year, to push back the time frame for reaching its inflation target, making it harder for policymakers to hold off from enlarging monetary stimulus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 20, 2016
BOJ officials 'disappointed' with unambitious salary talks
Bank of Japan officials are increasingly expressing disappointment at subdued annual wage talks, according to people familiar with the discussions, making next week's monetary-policy decision a closer call.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 17, 2016
Abenomics: state capitalism
Shinzo Abe's economic policies aren't really neoclassic or Keynesian. Rather they align more with the state capitalism practiced in China, Russia and Singapore.
EDITORIALS
Jan 16, 2016
Is Japan using the right data?
If the government is going to help the economy, it needs to improve the quality of its statistics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 9, 2016
Japan policymakers fearful of constantly dodgy data
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida joked almost 70 years ago that if Japan had kept better data, it might never have started a war with the U.S. His grandson, Finance Minister Taro Aso, worries about flawed statistics that could mislead economic policymakers today.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 25, 2015
Bank of Japan has room to maintain easing, Suga says
The Bank of Japan still has policy options to continue its unprecedented monetary easing, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in an interview days after the central bank announced it would not expand its main stimulus target.
EDITORIALS
Dec 24, 2015
Wrong-headed BOJ program
The Bank of Japan appears to be entering the realm of meddling — even indirectly — with business decisions by private-sector companies.

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A woman passes an "akichi" (vacant lot) in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. The capital is littered with such small lots in part because of Japan's aging and shrinking population.
Dealing with rising land vacancies as Japan shrinks