Tag - exports

 
 

EXPORTS

EDITORIALS
Apr 20, 2014
Exports that defy reason
Why would a country that suffered disastrous accidents at a nuclear power plant three years ago choose to push the export of its nuclear power technology around the world? Yet, the Abe administration sees this as a pillar of its economic strategy.
EDITORIALS
Apr 6, 2014
A risky weapons-export policy
The Abe administration must consider whether its new policy that relaxes Japan's long-standing prohibitions against weapons exports could increase tension with other countries and thereby reduce national security.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Mar 19, 2014
Exports resist jump-start of weakened yen through 'Abenomics'
According to orthodoxy, taking some starch out of the yen — an unofficial, yet unmistakable, goal of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's signature monetary policy — is manna to exporters, but recent figures throw into question this traditional success strategy.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 12, 2014
Abe rushing to revise ban on arms exports but Komeito remains wary
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration is in a hurry to lift Japan's self-imposed arms export ban, but political ally New Komeito is reluctant to play along.
EDITORIALS
Jan 20, 2014
Cheaper yen demands caution
The yen's decline under the watch of the Abe administration has contributed to the popularity of his economic policy, but a furthering weakening would have disadvantages.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 8, 2014
Sake boom revives rice types as Abe eyes exports
Farmers on Japan's west coast will sow Nihonbare rice this year for the first time in a decade as growers around the country return to older varieties to meet demand for record sake exports.

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