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Japan’s “National Resilience Plan”: Its Promise And Perils In The Wake Of The Election
By Andrew DeWit This article highlights Japan’s National Resilience (“Kokudo Kyoujinka”) strategy, a very important, multi-trillion-yen initiative that was (incredibly) ignored during the campaign preceding the December 14 election and continues to be. Like most countries’ efforts to bolster resilience against accelerating climate change and other patent threats, the content of Japan’s plan is a work … Continue reading
Japan’s Troubled Relations With China
By Yoshinori Kaseda Tokyo’s relations with Beijing in recent years have been very tense. Mutual visits of the top leaders have been suspended since Prime Minister Noda’s visit to China in December 2011. As of October 2014, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, in office since December 2012, has not met his Chinese counterpart. Factors Behind the Tensions … Continue reading
Abe’s Early Election Gambit Pays Off
By Craig Mark As widely expected, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has led his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a landslide victory in the country’s snap election. The LDP holds a 291-seat majority in the 475-seat lower house of Japan’s parliament, the Diet, after Sunday’s vote. With the support of its coalition partner the … Continue reading
Abe Must Raise Taxes To Save Abenomics
By Yukinobu Kitamura Hitotsubashi University Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the lower house of the Diet on 21 November and called a snap general election on 14 December. At the same time, Abe announced that he would postpone the second hike of the consumption tax rate from 1 October 2015 to 1 April 2017. … Continue reading
Japan’s Snap Election Won’t Ease Abe’s Woes
By Corey Wallace When Abe dissolved the lower house on 21 November 2014 and called a snap election for December, top leaders in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito identified keeping 270 seats as the low-water mark, which would represent a loss of 56 seats. Given current economic conditions and the state of … Continue reading
Peter Schiff: The Abenomics Death Spiral
By Peter Schiff Euro Pacific Capital As Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe has turned his country into a petri dish of Keynesian ideas, the trajectory of Japan’s economy has much to teach us about the wisdom of those policies. And although the warning sirens are blasting at the highest volumes imaginable, few economists can hear … Continue reading
Abe (Finally) Meets Xi: A Step towards Stabilization Of Japan-China Relations?
By Yuki Tatsumi E-International Relations On November 10, the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Chinese President Xi Jinping met at the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Beijing. This was the first time the two leaders had met since Abe returned to power in December 2012 and Xi ascended to the … Continue reading
ETFs To Watch On Japan Recession Shocker And Snap Election
By Zacks Equity Research After emerging out of the two-decade long stagnation in 2013 all thanks to “Abenomics”, Japan failed to sustain its winning momentum for most of this year. This is especially true as the world’s third-largest economy slipped into recession in the third quarter. The economy shrank 1.6% annually in the last quarter after … Continue reading
2 Top Ranked Japan ETFs To Ride Sales Tax Hike Delay
By Zacks Equity Research After a surprise QE announcement by the Bank of Japan which fueled a rally in Japanese stocks, the country’s Nikkei is back on fire amid bets that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will delay a planned consumption tax hike slated to take effect in 2015. Moreover, Abe is also likely to call for … Continue reading
Japan’s Economic Experiment
By Peter Drysdale East Asia Forum The Bank of Japan sent a new shock-wave through financial markets last week when Governor Haruhiko Kuroda announced another massive round of monetary expansion (Quantitative Easing or QE). The additional boost to the Japanese money supply was accompanied by a sharp lift of 4 per cent in the Nikkei … Continue reading
