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CHINESE ECONOMY

BUSINESS
Jan 13, 2016
Unfazed by turmoil, Nissan joins Starbucks in betting on China
Senior executives from Starbucks Corp. to Nissan Motor Co. and SAP SE are playing down concerns about China's slowdown and further potential depreciation of the yuan, with plans to sell more coffee, cars and software in the world's second-biggest economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 12, 2016
Can China avoid turning Japanese?
Beijing is acting like Tokyo, circa 1998, and courting Japanization instead of much needed reforms.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2016
A dangerous year for China
China probably won't crash in 2016, but the odds of big financial troubles are higher than they've been in well over a decade.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2015
China faces twin challenges to maintain growth
China needs to transition away from unsustainable investment-led growth and move toward a more sustainable consumption-led growth model.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 22, 2015
The CCP's daunting institutional challenges
China's leaders must cope with an asymmetry between what they can deliver and what consumers demand.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Dec 20, 2015
China's consumption blues
China's economy appears headed on a gradual downward trajectory amid sluggish consumption, stagnant income levels and a graying population.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2015
Yuan move good for China's politics
President Xi Jinping will now have to demonstrate that China's unique system of governance can produce the degree of stability and predictability in transition that characterizes the other regimes in the elite currency reserve group.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 22, 2015
As China weakens, recession stalks North Asia
The slowdown in China's economy, the world's second largest, is sucking the growth out of North Asia and tilting some economies toward recession.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 15, 2015
Tokyo Steel cuts prices as China drives supply glut
Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., Japan's biggest steel maker from scrap iron, cut all of its monthly contract prices for the first time in almost a year as China's overcapacity hurt its exports.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2015
China experts highlight need for economy based on consumption, innovation
Can the Chinese economy continue to thrive? This was the question that dominated discussions among leading Chinese and foreign business executives who gathered at a World Economic Forum meeting in the northeastern city of Dalian last week.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2015
Will China crash and follow in Japan's footsteps?
If China experiences an economic fate similar to that of Japan, will it become more nationalistic abroad to distract from domestic disappointments?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 31, 2015
China's political interventions
Recent events should compell China's leaders to reconsider the extent to which they control the country's economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 30, 2015
The Bank of Japan is China's biggest cheerleader
Unless Japan tends to its own economic problems, it will inevitably get dragged ever deeper into China's.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2015
What should China do?
China must avoid reverting to greater state control in its effort to get its economy back on track.
EDITORIALS
Aug 26, 2015
Sources of turbulence not gone
Developments in the Chinese economy need to be closely watched not just for their stock market repercussions but also for their impact on Japan's growth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2015
The value of China's devaluation
China's currency devaluation has advanced its strategic goal of turning the RMB into an international reserve currency — and, in the long term, into a credible global challenger to the U.S. dollar.
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2015
Market turbulence and the yuan
Japan should brace for a 'China shock' to the global economy.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 25, 2015
Part-time traders join pros in mass exodus from Japan stocks
Whether part-time or professional, Japan's stock investors are heading for the exits.
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.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
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.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

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