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May 26, 2025   Due to the rise in food and energy prices, the overall price index remains high, with an increase rate in the mid-3% range, exerting a great burden on consumers. Food price hikes h...

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April 28, 2025   Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington on April 24 to discuss exchange rate policy. According to the Japanese side, th...

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April 21, 2025   Non-tariff barriers refer to practices and legal regulations and systems that limit the competitiveness of imported goods in ways other than tariffs. If tough quality and safety sta...

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January 20, 2025   The Bank of Japan will hold its monetary policy meeting on January 23 and 24. The focus of attention is on whether the policy rate, or the overnight interbank call rate as the mai...

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September 9, 2024   Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, who is considered one of the front-runners in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election, expressed his determinati...

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September 2, 2024   As the schedule for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election has been fixed, an outline of major candidates’ policies has loomed. This essay focuses on and com...

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June 17, 2024   On June 11, the government released a draft Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform for 2024 that sets the direction of future economic and fiscal policies. The dra...

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May 27, 2024   After 31 Japanese National Diet members attended the inauguration ceremony of Taiwan’s new President Lai Chingte, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao in a roundtable discussion at...

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March 25, 2024   The Bank of Japan at its monetary policy meeting on March 19 decided to raise the uncollateralized overnight call rate (an interest rate on overnight interbank loans), which serves ...

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February 5, 2024   The Bank of Japan has persistently continued with monetary easing in order to completely overcome deflation that has been stagnating Japan’s economy for a long time. Under its mon...

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