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Japanese economy

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Bank of Japan
    BoJ to ‘significantly’ scale back bond buying in shift on ultra-loose policy

    Yen weakens after Japanese central bank delays releasing details on plans to trim balance sheet

    A pedestrian passes in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Inflation ain’t behaving Premium content

    The US, Eurozone, UK and Japan each have reasons to be unhappy

    Montage of central bankers Christine Lagarde, Kazuo Ueda, Jay Powell and Andrew Bailey
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why the EU and Japan are uniting against Chinese competition Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Brussels warns major tech platforms to do more against Russian disinformation

    Kadri Simson
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Yen
    Japan’s $62bn support for yen provides little reprieve

    Currency’s slide towards 34-year lows resumes as finance ministry reveals scale of market intervention

    A man walks past an electronic screen displaying yen-US dollar and other foreign currency exchange rates in Tokyo on Sunday
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Is now the time to buy Japan?

    This year’s powerful stock market rally attracted investors’ attention, but does it have staying power?

  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    News in-depthJapan
    Japan blocks view of Mount Fuji after local backlash against tourist hordes

    Barrier to deter sightseers highlights friction generated by rising visitor numbers drawn by weak yen

    A montage showing a worker in a helmet adjusting a barrier in the foreground with a yellow-toned Mount Fuji towering in the background
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Wanted: Japanese firms’ policy advice on AI, trade and crypto

    Legal expertise based on experience in government and industry is in demand to help shape regulation

    An aerial photo shows the Kumamoto factory building of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company being under construction in Kikuyo Town
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Takeshi Niinami
    China must learn from Japan’s ‘lost decades’

    The consequences of the world’s second-largest economy being sucked into a deflationary spiral would be severe

    A high street in the Toshima district of Tokyo
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Japan’s economy contracts in first quarter as consumer spending lags

    Weak yen puts pressure on household expenses and complicates central bank’s plan to raise interest rates

    Tourists sit at the Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The limits of yen intervention

    Unilateral efforts to prop up Japan’s currency are expensive and potentially futile

    Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    Japan used $59bn to prop up the yen but consumers may still cut back

    Government interventions this week fail to ease concerns about plunging currency

    Pedestrians walk in front of an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the Japanese yen against the US dollar
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Japan is haunted by a return to emerging-economy status

    The battering sustained by the yen since January is causing alarm in some quarters

    A man walks in front of electronic boards displaying the Japanese yen/US dollar exchange rate and Tokyo Stock Exchange share price close on May 1
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Yen
    Yen rebound signals Japanese government intervention, traders say

    Currency slid past ¥160 a dollar before regaining strength in a matter of hours

    A monitor shows the US dollar/Japanese yen exchange rate in Tokyo
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    How long can Japan remain a haven from China?

    People, money and trade are turning to Japan but a short-term opportunity may become a long-term problem

    James Ferguson illustration of a large Chinese shark and a small Japanese tuna
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Bank of Japan
    Yen sinks to 34-year low after Bank of Japan holds interest rates near zero

    Governor Kazuo Ueda says weakening currency is having ‘no major impact’ on underlying inflation

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda at a press conference in Tokyo in March
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    News in-depthBank of Japan
    Japan feels inflation heat from Fed’s ‘higher for longer’ shift

    Yen’s 34-year low against dollar complicates task for BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda a month after ending negative rates era

    BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Currencies
    Dollar hits 34-year high against yen after US inflation data

    Move past ¥153 sparks speculation that Japan could intervene to support currency

  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    Japan doubles down on the US alliance as China looms

    Tokyo and Washington are both determined to prevent Beijing from dominating the Indo-Pacific

    James Ferguson illustration of Biden and Kishida facing each other, stretching hands to shake - with a red bubble speech in a form of the Japanese flag between them.
  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
    The Big Read
    Is Japan finally becoming a ‘normal’ economy?

    Prices are rising, workers are demanding higher pay and the stock market is booming. But the country still has to fix deep-rooted problems

    A montage of three workers in hardhats and a separate image of a woman carrying a shopping basket with graphics of the fall and rise of the Japanese economy behind them
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast26 min listen
    Is Japan at a turning point?

    Optimism is tempered by concerns about a shrinking workforce

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
    Japan’s start-up spirit awakens

    Graduates are turning away from traditional career paths as young businesses flourish

    Three Asian entrepreneur males standing and having a discussion in front of a whiteboard
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    A new day dawns for the yen

    Japan’s negative interest rate era ended last week. Its currency stability era could end shortly

  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Declining population: the cause of, and (possible) solution to, all of Japan’s deflationary woes

    Escaping the ouroboros

  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Markets InsightRebecca Patterson
    Making sense of a wrong-way bet on the yen

    Among the largest developed-market peers, the Japanese currency has lost the most against the dollar this year

    A banknote of Japanese yen
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Yen
    Japan steps up intervention warnings as yen slides to weakest level since 1990

    Finance minister says government will ‘not rule out any steps against any excessive moves’

    A woman counts Japanese 10,000 yen notes
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