The world financial crisis has struck Japan's economy more heavily than the economies of other countries. In order to emerge from the crisis the Japanese government put an emphasis on the Keynesian methods of regulation, which consist in pumping state financial means into the economy with a view...
In August 2022, Kishida proclaimed that restarting idled nuclear power plants is a strategic imperative to avert crisis and secure Japan’s electricity supply, urging additional units approved by the NRA be brought online. Echoing this sentiment at the March 2024 Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, ...
Nothing in the APEC Joint Statement addressed what, if anything should be agreed at the 12th WTO Ministerial on the climate crisis and what role trade can play in addressing the crisis. This omission is unfortunate but likely reflects large differences in views within APEC members on the topic....
Then there are those who claim that Japan could just raise taxes in the event of a fiscal crisis. By raising the value-added tax ( VAT ) to 25%, the argument goes, Japan could generate 33 trillion yen in additional tax revenues, since at the current 10% rate, VAT revenue is around ...
reason for the sharp depreciation of the yen against the US dollar. From Dec 30, 2021 to July 14, 2022, the interest rate gap between the two currencies widened from 1.43 percentage points to 2.73 percentage points, marking the largest gap between them since the global financial crisis in ...
As CBS News has previously reported, the government has also introduced a number of programs, including an Artificial Intelligence-driven matchmaking service, to address the crisis. Late last year CBS News visited Kamikawa, one of several Japanese towns that has even offered financial incentives — ...
However, this figure was still very low compared to most other major economies, such as Japan's fellow G7 members, four of which had inflation rates around six or seven percent in 2023 due to the global inflation crisis. Why is Japan's inflation rate lower? There are a number of ...
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Sri Lanka: HRW urged the Quad to support economic programs in the crisis-hit nation, which has been battling an economic downspin for months. Protests have been continuing since March, with people calling for the president’s resignation as they face shortages of food, fuel and other basic su...
Related article Japan births fall to record low as population crisis deepens Doctor Yuka Okada, the director of Grace Sugiyama Clinic in Tokyo, said cultural barriers meant talking about a woman’s fertility was often off limits. “(People see the topic as) a little bit embarrassing. Think...