One member of the Bank of Japan's policy board said limiting quantitative easing to two years could help stabilise the bond market, as the central bank's communications about its monetary policy...
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12 Jun 2013
Japan’s core machinery orders fell in April from the previous month, down for the first time in three months as companies remain hesitant to boost capital spending despite Prime Minister Shinzo...
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12 Jun 2013
Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, last week tried to launch the third of his famous "three arrows" that are supposed to be his modern weapon of choice to defeat decades of deflation and to put...
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11 Jun 2013
The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Tuesday and held off on taking fresh steps to calm bond market volatility, possibly judging that recent market turbulence has yet to pose a...
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11 Jun 2013
Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is losing the confidence of the currency market, where traders are repudiating his efforts to end persistent deflation and revive the world's third-largest...
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8 Jun 2013
The yen headed for its largest weekly rise since October 2008 after Japan's finance minister, Taro Aso, said he would not intervene to weaken the currency. Yuji Saito, the director of foreign...
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Is the Bank of Japan creating the biggest pyramid scheme in history? In recent weeks, Haruhiko Kuroda has been the toast of the financial world, winning plaudits from Nobel laureates Paul Krugman...
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Holidaymakers looking towards Japan as a destination this summer should think ahead when it comes to currency exchange.
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The International Monetary Fund on Friday gave a cautious thumbs up to Japan’s economy-boosting efforts, but warned there are “considerable downside risks” if Tokyo doesn’t chop its huge national...
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Japanese factories churned out a better-than-expected performance in April, but the upbeat data yesterday was tempered as the country remained mired in deflation.
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The minutes of the Bank of Japan's April 26 meeting showed a rift developing within the board over its ambitious stimulus plan, as a few policymakers opposed targeting 2 per cent inflation in two...
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No one needs a lean-in movement like Japan's women. I had this conversation in Tokyo 12 years ago with Sheryl Sandberg, long before she joined Facebook and wrote her book on female empowerment.
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