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ECONOMY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 8, 2015
Nikkei Bull run masks Japan's poverty bubble
The Bank of Japan's monetary easing has boosted stocks to levels not seen since 1996, but has also led to a surge in inequality.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 8, 2015
Japan dodges recession as third quarter marks mild uptick
Gross domestic product expanded in the third quarter rather than contracting as previously thought, meaning the economy did not enter a recession earlier this year.
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.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2015
Thailand's generals shoot economy in the foot
Thailand's military junta lacks the vision to fix an economy in disarray.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 7, 2015
Afghan brain drain threatens to cause severe economic damage
Afghan software entrepreneur Farshid Ghyasi, chief executive of the Netlinks company, is struggling to keep his best employees, as more plan to join a wave of migrants leaving for Europe that risks causing long-term damage to the country and its economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 30, 2015
Japan's looming debt nightmare won't fix itself
Given that its long-term potential real GDP growth is no more than 1 percent, Japan needs to rein in its ballooning national debt through spending cuts or tax hikes.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 24, 2015
Minimum wage to go up 3 percent to boost consumption
The Abe administration will raise the minimum wage by 3 percent each year starting next fiscal year as part of a package of policies aimed at strengthening consumer spending and stoking economic growth.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 24, 2015
Asia's $89 billion sexism issue
Japan is one of the worst offenders when it comes to sexism. Shinzo Abe needs to prove 'womenomics' is more than tokenism.
EDITORIALS
Nov 20, 2015
Another back-to-back GDP drop
It's time for the prime minister to take stock of 'Abenomics' and consider what needs to be done to achieve the virtuous cycle that he keeps promising.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 18, 2015
Bank of Japan is done boosting stimulus: experts
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, who unleashed unprecedented monetary stimulus in 2013 and doubled down on it last year, is done expanding his efforts, according to an increasing number of economists.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 17, 2015
Japan Inc.'s investment cuts cloud 'Abenomics' as firms, sensing slump, save for rainy day
Japan Inc. is looking like it’s not holding up its end of the "Abenomics" bargain.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 16, 2015
Recession ignored by Japan investors as profits drive rally
If Japan's economy is in trouble, you wouldn't know it from the stock market.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2015
The decline and fall of America's working class
Why are mortality rates rising for American working-class whites?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 9, 2015
Abe launches tourism panel; inbound target may be raised
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launches a key advisory panel to draw up a midterm program to increase the number of people visiting Japan.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.

Podcast

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

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