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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2019
Trump's trade war cost U.S. economy $7.8 billion in 2018, study says
President Donald Trump's trade battles cost the U.S. economy $7.8 billion in lost gross domestic product in 2018, according to a study by a team of economists at leading American universities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 5, 2019
China to slash taxes and boost lending as government sets growth target of at least 6%
China lowered its goal for economic growth and announced a major tax cut, as policymakers seek to pull off a gradual deceleration while grappling with a debt legacy and the trade standoff with the U.S.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 4, 2019
Wanted: Startup nation Japan
Fostering greater entrepreneurship is the best way for Japan to achieve sustained economic growth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 19, 2019
Japan's economy is far from hopeless
A rebound in fourth-quarter GDP may disappoint idealists, but the fact that the economy is treading water is pretty good these days.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2019
Fourth-quarter figures drag China's 2018 growth to a 28-year low of 6.6%
China's economy cooled in the fourth quarter under pressure from faltering domestic demand and bruising U.S. tariffs, dragging growth in 2018 to its lowest level in nearly three decades and pressuring Beijing to roll out more stimulus to avert a sharper slowdown.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 13, 2018
U.S. debt under Trump has ballooned by size of Brazil's GDP: Treasury
U.S. government debt is on track this year to rise at the fastest pace since 2012, as a stronger economy fails to keep pace with the wave of red ink that's rising under the Trump administration.
EDITORIALS
Nov 16, 2018
Dip in GDP — no alarm but caution is warranted
The third-quarter GDP dip may be no cause for alarm but we should still be on guard against a possible downturn of the economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 14, 2018
Bank of Japan's hoard of assets now bigger than the economy
The Bank of Japan's massive asset purchase program has taken it into uncharted territory, with its ballooning holdings now larger than the country's annual economic output.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 14, 2018
Natural disasters add to growing economic headwinds as GDP contracts in third quarter
Natural disasters this summer combined with global trade frictions were behind the economy's sluggish third-quarter performance, making GDP fall at an annualized rate of 1.2 percent, government data showed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 19, 2018
China urges investor calm while stopping short of market rescue
China's top financial officials moved to shore up confidence in the country's tumbling stock market, a rare show of coordinated verbal support as the government tries to prevent the deepest equity sell-off since 2015 from infecting the world's second-largest economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 19, 2018
China's third-quarter GDP growth slowest since global financial crisis
China's third-quarter economic growth slowed to its weakest pace since the global financial crisis and missed expectations as a multiyear campaign to tackle debt risks and the trade war with the United States began to bite.
EDITORIALS
Oct 17, 2018
What next after the consumption tax goes to 10%?
Doubts persist as to whether the hike will cover the mushrooming social security costs of the rapidly aging population.

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
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