Cabinet Office
May 29, 2013
A Cabinet Office expert panel, in its final report published May 28, stated it is difficult to predict the timing, epicenter and scale of a massive earthquake that is expected...
February 07, 2013
Japan's core machinery orders surged unexpectedly in December, up for a third straight month and firms expect more improvement in the first quarter, taking heart from recent...
December 17, 2012
For the first time in 15 years, more than half of the Japanese population feels that the husband should work while the wife takes care of the home, according to a Cabinet...
December 08, 2012
The Cabinet Office has downgraded its assessment of Japanese business conditions from "showing downward changes" in September to "worsening" in October, according to a...
November 29, 2012
Business confidence in the July-September quarter declined in all 11 regions of Japan for the first time since the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, a...
November 07, 2012
Japan appears to have entered a recession for the first time in four years, as a key indicator of the current state of the economy fell for a sixth consecutive month, the...
August 07, 2012
Business conditions in Japan in June were "weakening," according to the Cabinet Office, which downgraded its monthly assessment from "improving" in May, the first downward...
July 10, 2012
The government's drive to raise the consumption tax rate and aggressive energy-saving measures combined to put a chill on economic sentiment in Japan.
May 25, 2012
Promoters of atomic energy, the so-called nuclear power village comprising people in government, academia and the power industry, clearly have not reflected on their past...
May 02, 2012
Analysts expect Japan’s gross domestic product to grow 0.8 percent in real terms, or an annualized 3.3 percent, in the first quarter of this year compared with the previous...
February 03, 2012
Economic statistics to be released by the Cabinet Office on Feb. 13 are expected to show a fall in Japan’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the last three months of 2011.
January 25, 2012
Japan still will be running a multi-trillion yen fiscal deficit in 2020 even if Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s government succeeds in increasing the consumption tax to 10...
January 13, 2012
The Noda administration’s recent push to raise the consumption tax rate has increased the bearish sentiment about the future of the Japanese economy among companies...
December 10, 2011
Downward revisions of Japan’s gross domestic product for the first two quarters of fiscal 2011 could pull Japan’s annual growth rate into negative figures for the first...
December 06, 2011
Taking a leaf out of Bhutan's happiness index, Japan now plans something along similar lines.
October 12, 2011
The economy of the quake-battered Tohoku region has shown steady improvement for five consecutive months, the Bank of Japan's Sendai Branch said in its latest monthly...
September 21, 2011
Japan's economy is improving to levels seen before the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, but a number of factors, including turmoil overseas, could derail the recovery...
September 21, 2011
The amount of fissile plutonium possessed by Japan both at home and abroad as of the end of 2010 was about 30 tons, according to a Cabinet Office report submitted to the Japan...
September 09, 2011
Business sentiment among people in jobs sensitive to economic conditions fell 5.3 points in August from July to 47.3, marking the first decline since the Great East Japan...
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