Topic: Japan
Japan on Monday unveiled an 11 billion dollar" class="inform">dollar stimulus and announced monetary steps to safeguard a fragile economy and curb the impact of a strong yen, but markets were left unimpressed. Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced the 920 billion yen stimulus ...
Booming Asia assesses prospects amid abrupt slowdown in global economic recoveryTalk of the global economic recovery fizzling doesn't faze Cho Byung-cheol, president of a small South Korean technology company that has already set up a branch in China and plans one soon ...
China overtakes Japan in 2Q as world's No. 2 economy amid slowdown in recoveryJapan lost its place as the world's No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery. Gross domestic ...
Japanese exports continued to rise in June on shipments to Asia but the pace of growth was the slowest this year amid signs that recovery may be losing steam as global demand falls, data showed Monday. "We previously saw a robust, V-shaped ...
Japan's central bank Thursday raised its growth forecast to 2.6 percent for this fiscal year as recovery in Asia's biggest economy inches painfully ahead thanks to demand in emerging nations. "Japan's economy shows further signs of moderate recovery, induced by improvement in ...
A key indicator of Japanese corporate capital spending fell the most since 2008 in May, data showed Thursday, in a fresh sign that a fragile economic recovery may be losing momentum. Japan's core private-sector machinery orders dropped 9.1 percent in May from ...
The number of foreign residents in Japan fell for the first time in nearly half a century last year as a severe recession hit jobs in the auto and other industrial sectors, according to government data. A total of 2.186 million people ...
Frustration among refugees in Gaza has reached "bursting point" with further unrest likely unless Israel lifts its blockade against them immediately, the head of a UN aid body said Friday. Filippo Grandi, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for ...
Japan's unemployment rate rose unexpectedly in May, factory output declined and household consumption fell, illustrating the fragile nature of a recovery beset by weak domestic demand. The data poses a challenge for Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government ahead of July elections as ...
World leaders agree to disagree on best economic strategy to focus on other issues at summitWorld leaders, facing serious differences over the best way to nurture a fragile global recovery, are agreeing to disagree in a variety of key areas. Even before ...
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