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JAPANESE ECONOMY

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Feb 16, 2018
Tax incentive tweak to raise Japan's wages expected to have limited appeal
On the surface, it looks like an attractive deal: Raise your workers' pay by 3 percent and your company qualifies for a substantial tax break.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2018
'More of the same' isn't a choice for Kuroda
Reports that Haruhiko Kuroda will be reappointed don't mean he can continue stimulus forever.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 30, 2018
A prologue to work-style reforms
Japan needs to overhaul its labor market to make the most of its shrinking workforce.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 30, 2018
Kuroda deserves a second term
A figure of Haruhiko Kuroda's experience and credibility is required to dispatch the dissenters and give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the support he needs to run the economy hot for several more years.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 29, 2018
Japan's three structural challenges
To ensure its future prosperity, Japan must resolve its demographic, productivity and fiscal dilemmas.
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2018
Japan's rural regions turn to 'sharing economy' to offer residents valuable services
Business practices collectively known as the "sharing economy" are offering new ways for local and prefectural governments to address problems such as aging populations and scarce job opportunities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / TSE DATA & REPORT
Jan 9, 2018
Nikkei posts new 26-year high as analysts predict gains to continue
Expect the 225-issue Nikkei average's upward momentum to continue, analysts say, as the benchmark index hit a new 26-year high Tuesday on the back of gains in U.S. shares and a solid corporate earnings outlook.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 28, 2017
'Kurodanomics' is 2018's biggest question mark
The success of Abe's sixth year in power is firmly in the hands of BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Dec 26, 2017
Why SMEs should fear megabank restructure
The massive restructuring being planned at major Japanese banks may result not just in job cuts for the highly-paid bank employees but a much broader, serious consequences for the economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 20, 2017
Making Japanese small business thrive
It's time for Japan's small and medium-size enterprises to embrace technological solutions to find global customers.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 19, 2017
Why Bannon showing Abe love is cringeworthy
Former Trump chief strategist may have inadvertently diagnosed why Abe isn't making Japan's economy great again.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 5, 2017
Let's make 2018 the year of the wage surge
If the Abe administration wants companies to open their wallets, it must disrupt corporate Japan's incrementalism.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2017
A standard approach to fiscal reconstruction
If it's really serious about rehabilitating its fiscal conditions, Japan should first get over deflation, even by expanding fiscal spending — and it still has room for fiscal expansion.
EDITORIALS
Nov 17, 2017
Wanted: Domestic demand-driven growth
Consumer-led economic growth will remain elusive as long as corporations enjoying record profits hesitate to give substantial wage hikes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2017
Japan's fresh grads falling further behind in pay race as monthly wage averages ¥213,000
What's a university degree worth in Japan? About ¥2.9 million a year based on starting salaries for new graduates, and the figure has barely budged over the past decade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2017
Bank of Japan is in Kuroda mode even if he leaves
Even if Abe follows precedent and makes a change at the BOJ after one term, Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's legacy will live on.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolts Nagano
A map showing the location of an earthquake that hit Nagano Prefecture on Friday evening, with the numbers indicating the seismic intensity on the shindo scale to 7.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.
LDP and CDP lawmaker groups propose 0% consumption tax on food
A vegetable stand displays prices at a supermarket in Tokyo in 2023. Some lawmakers are proposing lowering the consumption tax on food to 0%, which is expected to result in a loss of up to ¥5 trillion in tax revenue annually.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.

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