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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 8, 2022
Japan’s smaller first quarter economic slip points to consumer rebound
Consumption continued to grow in the quarter despite a raft of omicron-related restrictions on business operating hours.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2022
Japanese government coy on specifics as five-year plan to strengthen defense confirmed
Newly approved economic policy guidelines mention plans to bolster Japan's military over five years without giving a specific spending target — reflecting divisions within the LDP.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 7, 2022
Three years out, the verdict is still out on ‘Peak Japan’
The real test is yet to come. In the most optimistic telling, Japan turns its liabilities — a declining population in particular — into assets.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 7, 2022
Putin and COVID-19 may help Kishida keep Japan’s top job for years
Kishida's tough stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and cautious virus response have swung previously skeptical voters behind the former foreign minister.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 7, 2022
Japan's household spending falls as rising costs squeeze consumers
Spending improved from the previous month as households showed increasing appetite for services such as eating out, but the month-on-month rise was smaller than expected.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 4, 2022
Toshio Watanabe lifts the veil on the bureaucrats who developed Taiwan
Readers will get a clear understanding of what colonial administrators were trying to achieve, but are largely left in the dark as to what the local population thought.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 3, 2022
BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda highlights inflation as risk to Japan's economy
Kuroda said it was undesirable for prices to rise too much when household income growth remains weak.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jun 2, 2022
Kishida's 'new capitalism' not so new, economists say, but on the right track
Much of the language in this week's draft economic proposal was familiar, but the new emphasis on human resources could help lift Japan's economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 1, 2022
What a Netflix hit really reveals about Japanese risk-taking
Japanese parents crave job security for their kids. If anything, the country could afford to be a little more out there as far as risk taking goes.
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2022
Kishida touts 'grand design' for capitalism reform at policy launch
Kishida said the country needs to focus on new areas of growth as a panel laid out proposals for his 'new form of capitalism” aimed at reducing social disparities and driving the economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2022
Japan tweaks budget goal wording to gain more fiscal flexibility
Japan's target of balancing its budget excluding debt payments by 2025 had long seemed unlikely, even by the government's own growth projections.

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