Japan Plans $192 Handouts for Low-Income Households in Package
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government is planning ¥30,000 ($192) cash handouts to help low-income households ...
Japan's rising wholesale inflation heightens uncertainty on BOJ's rate hike timing
Japan's wholesale inflation accelerated in October as renewed yen falls pushed up import costs for some goods, data showed on ...
Former BOJ Member Weighs in on Political Headwinds Facing Japan Central Bank
Former Bank of Japan policy board member Takahide Kiuchi said the domestic political situation is tilted against more rate ...
Japan's political lynchpin Tamaki aims to unleash Yellen-inspired economic boom
Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...
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The yen has fallen, but JICA has grown. How is Japanese aid keeping up?
“So we, the Japanese government, have continued to use the words ‘free and open Indo-Pacific.’ If this area of promising ...
Minority Government in Japan Can Help Retail Stocks, Utilities
The newfound influence of opposition lawmakers in Japan has investors looking for gains in the shares of retailers and ...
Drastic efforts needed to open door for Japan's 1st female PM
The cliffhanger election in the United States in which Kamala Harris came close to becoming the country's first female ...
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Japan Unveils $65 Billion Plan to Aid Domestic Chip Industry
Last year, the Japanese government said it would allocate some 2 trillion yen to support its chip industry. The latest plan, part of the government's comprehensive economic package to be approved by ...
Mises Institute2d
Assumptions in Economics and in the Real World
Mainstream economists often base their analysis upon assumptions that do not square with reality. Austrian economics, on the ...