Topic: Japan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is confident Japan will be able to handle economic challenges in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, and does not expect the disaster to stall the world's recovery from economic recession, a White House spokesman ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan eased its ultra-loose monetary policy further on Monday by expanding its asset-buying programme while keeping rates on hold.KEY POINTS:-- The BOJ kept interest rates unchanged at a range of zero to 0.1 percent by a ...
Expats living in Tokyo are paying more rent than anywhere else in the world due to the soaring yen, while those in Hong Kong would have seen theirs rise 22 percent, a survey has revealed.For the privilege of living in the Japanese ...
The pace of Japan's economic growth will halve in fiscal 2011 from this year as a stimulus-driven shopping rush eases and exports fall on a strong yen and softer demand, the government said Wednesday.In its outlook report, the Cabinet Office also said ...
Top business story of 2010: Economy makes gains, but unemployment remains chronically highIn 2010, the economy rebounded fitfully from the Great Recession — starting strong, wobbling at midyear but showing enough vigor by year's end to quell fears of a second recession. ...
Incentives to kickstart spending by Asian governments after the global downturn will help the region post retail sales almost double those of North America within four years, a report said on Monday.The region will also post sales three times more than Western ...
China's economy again beat Japan's in the third quarter, and Asia's rising giant remained on course to unseat Japan as the world's number two economy for the year as a whole, data showed Thursday.Japan stressed that it remained ahead for the first ...
The United Nations warned Wednesday that world growth in the next two years will not be enough to recover jobs lost in the financial crisis and that key countries could be heading for a double-dip recession.The United States, Japan and major European ...
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Factories in Japan and South Korea cut output in October, adding to evidence of an Asia-wide slowdown and boding ill for the rest of the world that has relied on the region to keep the global economy humming.Japanese companies ...
Japan's economy also peaked around this time, having grown by leaps and bounds since the early 1980s, only to grind to a standstill for more than a decade after the bursting of its equity and housing bubbles.. Over-investment, as measured by fixed ...
