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February 17, 2025   Many analysts say the February 7 meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump was successful. But such analysis is naïve. A barrage ...

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January 27, 2025   On January 24, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda not only raised the policy interest rate from 0.25% to 0.5%, but indicated his intention to continue the rate hike. In the backgro...

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November 18, 2024   While a high tariff policy that the second U.S. Trump administration is expected to introduce after its inauguration next January has been criticized as being likely to trigger g...

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November 5, 2024   The ruling coalition’s crushing defeat in the October 27 House of Representatives election provided an opportunity to encourage the correction of Japan’s fiscal policy biased towa...

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October 28, 2024   The bottom of China’s property bubble bursting recession is nowhere to be seen. As the peculiar economic system in which the Chinese Communist Party controls the market economy ha...

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October 15, 2024   Following his victory in the recent Liberal Democratic Party leader election, Shigeru Ishiba, who had been known for his anti-Abenomics stance, advocated a “breakaway from deflati...

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August 5, 2024   The Bank of Japan at its Monetary Policy Meeting on July 31 decided to raise its policy interest rate to 0.25% and reduce new government bond purchases. The central bank is thus tig...

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July 23, 2024   On July 18, the Chinese Communist Party ended its third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee, setting forth a policy to grow economy with state-run companies as a pillar. Am...

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July 1, 2024   Russia is dodging Western financial sanctions. Its consumer price inflation rate is now in the 7% range, lower than the 8% range before the Ukraine war. Behind the low rate is support...

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May 20, 2024   Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at their meeting in Beijing last week agreed to enhance strategic cooperation. This demonstrates the formation of a S...

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