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ECONOMY

COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2016
China's progress is killing the instant noodle
Rising wages have improved living standards and expectations for millions of Chinese workers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2016
Donald Trump's best friend is Rosy Scenario
The Republican candidate's economic plan relies on unrealistic visions of rapid growth and boundless tax revenue.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2016
Don't hype China's reserve currency moment
Hopes that entry into the IMF's currency basket would quicken the pace of reforms have been dashed.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2016
IMF sees Japanese talent locked in low-paying jobs
The rich and powerful versus the weak and underpaid.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 27, 2016
Can robots save the BOJ?
Techno-optimist Shinzo Abe should be pushing reforms and a startup boom rather than more easy money.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 23, 2016
Amid strong yen, 'tankan' survey predicted to show business mood mixed
Japanese manufacturers' mood improved for the first time in five quarters while service sector confidence worsened to the lowest since 2014, a Reuters poll showed, as the effects of a strong yen filtered through the economy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 20, 2016
Can the Bank of Japan keep the bond vigilantes at bay?
The Bank of Japan needs to tread carefully as the country's debt addiction is rattling jittery traders.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2016
Fed is a prisoner of exaggerated expectations
The notion the central bank could orchestrate economic growth was optimistic and unrealistic.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 20, 2016
With no growth locomotive, world economy struggles to gain speed
Here's what's wrong with the world economy: No nation has the will or the way to be the locomotive for global growth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2016
Japan steelmakers suffer as China squeezes coal industry, sending fuel price soaring above $200
The nation's steel makers are set to pay for China's effort to manage its coal industry as a surge in metallurgical prices flow through to quarterly supply contracts.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2016
Could a President Trump destabilize China?
The knock-on effects of a Trump trade war would be wide, deep and lasting, thrusting China's GDP below 5 percent.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 14, 2016
'Safety net' needed to get young consumers to spend more: economist
Kazuhisa Takemura has an idea for helping Japan's struggling economy: Entice younger consumers to spend more by providing them a financial and emotional cushion.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2016
BOJ's upcoming policy review
The Bank of Japan should candidly assess the impact of its monetary policy and consider whether it's still worth pursuing.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 13, 2016
Central bank's policies impeding recovery
Central bankers' 'central planning' of the financial sector with controlled prices for credit are failing for the same reason as central planners of communist economies failed. It's time to allow financial markets to determine interest rates.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2016
Japan shows why the Fed should hike rates
Tokyo's lesson is that keeping rates at zero for too long may do more to deaden confidence than instill it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2016
Ending American poverty: mission impossible?
There's no powerful mandate for a vast new anti-poverty program.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2016
U.S. has 'false economy' and interest rates must change: Trump
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates low to prevent an economic downturn and "at some point" the rates must change.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2016
Economic shift leaves many Chinese adrift
The yawning gap between winners and losers is making life much harder for a government seeking to boost growth and maintain stability.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'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.

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