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February 13, 2023   Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has proposed to the National Diet the appointment of economist Kazuo Ueda as new Bank of Japan governor to succeed Haruhiko Kuroda. The government an...

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December 26, 2022   The Bank of Japan on December 20 decided to expand the allowable fluctuation range from 25 basis points to 50 basis points for the benchmark 10-year government bond yield. The de...

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November 28, 2022   The biggest focus of attention regarding the government’s formulation of a fiscal 2023 budget late this year is how to secure financial resources for Japan’s defense buildup. Pri...

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September 12, 2022   Every time when the Japanese yen depreciates, arguments grow that weakening yen is a bad thing. What Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki could do at best, in the face of growing pr...

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July 4, 2022   Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attended an annual summit of the Group of Seven industrial democracies in Germany and a subsequent expanded summit of the North Atlantic Treaty O...

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June 6, 2022   Japanese government under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has removed a goal of achieving a primary balance surplus in fiscal 2025 from the “Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Manage...

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March 22, 2022   Energy prices have been spiking with an economic recovery from the novel coronavirus recession and economic sanctions on oil-producing Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. While the...

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January 24, 2022   Japan’s deflation over the past quarter century has affected not only its gross domestic product but also defense spending. Its national power, two pillars of which are economy an...

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March 11, 2019      At the outset on March 5 of an annual session of the National People’s Congress, China’s dummy legislature controlled by the Communist Party, Premier Li Keqiang announced to se...

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June 6, 2016      Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has postponed consumption tax hike until October 2019, while only a little more than two years are left for his Abenomics economic policy. If h...

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