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ECONOMY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2022
China has painted itself into a semiconductor corner
Lost billions, graft probes, and broken dreams are the result of over-ambitious goals to build a leading chip sector.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 15, 2022
Japan’s economy recovers pre-pandemic size on consumption gain
Gross domestic product grew at an annualized pace of 2.2% in the second quarter of this year, coming in below the median estimate of 2.6%.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 15, 2022
Japanese government to keep imported wheat prices unchanged
The government plans to draw up in early September additional measures to tackle higher prices and other factors affecting people's lives.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 14, 2022
Asian gas prices rally on rush by Japan to secure winter supplies
Supply disruptions from Russia to the U.S. have importers worried that there won't be enough natural gas for everyone when demand peaks in the northern hemisphere winter.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2022
Companies made heaps of money in 2021. And workers?
European corporate profits are soaring but employees hoping for a big raise face disappointment.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2022
The Group of 20 in an age of war
From a demographic perspective, the G20 is a much more legitimate grouping — in terms of representing a diverse, complex world — than the G7.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 14, 2022
Japan to see further price hike for milk in winter
The wholesale price increase is expected to jack up retail prices of milk and other products, dealing another blow to households.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 12, 2022
Why might China avoid strong inflation?
The Chinese government knows an overly strong stimulus would entail excessive monetary expansion and a surge in inflation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 12, 2022
Japan’s economic rebound unlikely to derail BOJ governor's easing plan
The nation's GDP is predicted to have returned to its pre-pandemic level, but weak wages and a darkening global outlook will likely see Haruhiko Kuroda stick to his stance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 12, 2022
Minimum wages are going up. Jobs may disappear.
Past studies have found that higher pay doesn't hurt employment over the short term. But new research shows that the effects over time could be more harmful.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 12, 2022
Climate change and scarcity chip away at de-growth taboo
De-growth — the idea that a finite planet cannot sustain ever-increasing consumption — is about the closest you can get to a heresy in economics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Aug 11, 2022
Kishida's Cabinet reshuffle indicates Bank of Japan easing will continue
As a result of the reshuffle, economists expect the BOJ to keep rock-bottom interest rates to support the economy, while a resurgence of the coronavirus threatens its fragile recovery.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 10, 2022
LDP politics take precedence over economy in Kishida’s Cabinet reshuffle
The apparent desire to achieve an internal balance of power seems to have mostly affected ministerial positions concerned with economics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2022
Japan's wholesale inflation moderates on easing global commodity pressure
July's increase in the corporate goods price index marked the 17th straight month of gains but slowed from a revised 9.4% rise in June.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 9, 2022
Tokyo taxi fares set for rare hike as inflation pressures mount
The hikes are needed in order to improve the wages and working environment of drivers, as well as to cover for rising fuel costs, the transport ministry said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 9, 2022
Japanese merchants’ mood takes biggest hit since winter omicron wave
A gauge of sentiment among store managers, taxi drivers and others who deal directly with Japanese consumers slid 9.1 points to 43.8 last month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 8, 2022
Yen shorts fall out of fashion as recessionary fears end year’s hottest forex trade
Three key pillars of the sell-the-yen trade — a widening U.S.-Japan interest-rate gap, soaring oil prices and the loss of the currency's haven status — are crumbling.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 8, 2022
How this economic moment rewrites the rules
Businesses have now spent 2u00bd years in a state of constant adjustment.
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.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
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.”

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