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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
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
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.
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.
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Oct 4, 2021
Hiroshima university students making documentary on 'black rain' hibakusha
The film, motivated by anger at a lack of government support for the A-bomb victims, documents the hardships residents in Hiroshima's Saeki Ward have endured over the years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 1, 2021
Nissan to settle U.S. investor claims over Carlos Ghosn’s compensation
Nissan has agreed to settle a class action suit by investors who said they were misled about a compensation plan that allegedly saw the former chairman be overpaid.

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Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?