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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 14, 2021
From beef bowls to coffee, cost surge squeezes Japan's salaryman staples
Economists and policymakers expect to see the recent price rises reflected in official data in the coming months.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 14, 2021
Japanese companies back Kishida's plan for big fiscal stimulus, poll shows
The Corporate Survey showed 87% of firms urged a large extra budget to fund the stimulus, with 40% demanding an outlay of u00a510 trillion to u00a520 trillion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2021
Japan's average gasoline price rises to highest level in seven years
The average price for regular gasoline stood at u00a5162.10 ($1.4) per liter as of Monday, up u00a52.10 from Oct. 4.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2021
Japan downgrades machinery orders outlook after 2.4% decline in August
The Cabinet Office said that machinery orders, seen as a leading indicator of corporate capital spending, were showing 'signs of stalling in their recovery' in August.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 13, 2021
Teen arrested for attacking girl in Yamanashi hints at involvement in arson
A 19-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a girl the previous day in a house in Kofu, west of Tokyo, shortly before the house burned down in a suspected arson incident that killed two people presumed to be the girl's parents.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 13, 2021
IMF cuts Japan's 2021 growth forecast to 2.4% on latest COVID-19 wave
As for Japan, the IMF attributed the downward revision for 2021 to the impact of the latest COVID-19 state of emergency.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 12, 2021
Kishida doubles down on economic security
The new government in Tokyo must fight the temptation to use “economic security” to justify protectionism or other expressions of economic nationalism.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2021
Tokyo court disrupted by hundreds of maskless anti-vaxxers
The plaintiffs in the case are demanding that the government cancel the fast-track approval it gave to COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 12, 2021
Japan wholesale inflation hits 13-year high, squeezing corporate profits
Rising oil prices pushed up petroleum and coal costs by 32.4% in September, while prices of wood products spiked 48.3%.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 12, 2021
Couple indicted for murder of Tokyo high school girl in August
The couple were arrested on Aug. 31 on suspicion of abandoning the girl's body, after the police apprehended them a day before in Nagano Prefecture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2021
Skepticism over Kishida's economic policy dims Tokyo stocks outlook
Since Kishida won the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 29, the Nikkei has slid 5.1%, with the eight-day losing streak through last Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2021
In election platform, LDP to promise tax incentives for companies that raise wages
The LDP platform will also include the enactment of legislation on economic security, an issue Kishida is focusing on amid fierce competition over tech between the U.S. and China.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2021
Kishida, the continuity candidate, must pursue real change
The prime minister's success will be complicated by massive national debt and whether he can put the country's public finances in order.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2021
New Japanese finance chief faces dilemma: Spend more or repair fiscal health
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki will be forced to balance Kishida's spending plans with the nation's poor fiscal health.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2021
Japan's household spending falls as COVID-19 curbs sap economic recovery
The latest data bodes ill for new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's efforts to revitalize the pandemic-hit economy and distribute more wealth to households through higher wages.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2021
What’s behind Japan’s ambivalence about Kishida
Kishida has toed a cautious line on almost everything, raising questions about how he will actually deliver on his policies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2021
BOJ chief says shift to decarbonized growth needs concerted effort between Japan and U.S.
Kuroda stressed the need to act now rather than later as climate change may have an 'extremely large' impact on the economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2021
‘Kishida Shock’ hits Japan's markets with investors wary of redistribution plans
The hashtag 'Kishida Shock” trended on Twitter, as the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average was set to extend its losing streak to an eighth day.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2021
Japan's new economic security minister sets out agenda amid global supply chain woes
One of the major tasks for Takayuki Kobayashi, a Finance Ministry bureaucrat-turned-politician, is to create a new legal framework to support the implementation of related policies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 5, 2021
Shunichi Suzuki takes Japan finance reins as election and stimulus loom
The 68-year-old Suzuki was appointed to the job after helping to install the country's new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, who took the job earlier Monday.

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