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People wearing protective masks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, are seen at an area with plenty of cheap accommodation for day labourers in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's stock ...
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday while giving a campaign speech in Nara prefecture, ending the life of the lawmaker who set the tone for Japan's economic future. Abe's ...
(Bloomberg) -- Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers predicted that policy makers in developed nations around the world will study the legacy of Abenomics, a framework he described as an ...
Data geeks rejoice! There are now even more statistics to judge the success or failure of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic program, or "Abenomics." Hitotsubashi University, in collaboration with ...
Recently, attacks on Abenomics have intensified. One impetus is recent remarks by Koichi Hamada, a former Yale University professor and one of the godfathers of Abenomics, when he said he recently ...
When Japan’s third-quarter GDP figures were initially released in mid-November, they showed that the country had officially slipped back into recession. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s critics were quick ...
Critics have been eager to stick the knife into Japan’s Abenomics over its slow progress on reforms and sluggish growth rate. But eyeing an extended term in office, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe ...
The dollar/yen exchange rate (hereafter referred to as USDJPY) has went from 80 to 125 in the span of a few years. The short history is this: Japan got a radical new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who ...