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A security guard stands in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. 91AV原创 weak yen has helped exporters but hurt consumers, and the BOJ should raise interest rates more aggressively to reduce inflationary pressures.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 20, 2026
Japan needs higher interest rates
A weak yen, combined with higher interest rates in the US, calls for a much tighter monetary policy.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama insists that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is not a reflationist.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2026
Reflationists? Who, us? Heirs to Abenomics insist it’s a thing of the past.
The current administration argues it’s done with the policy prescription championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and is now taking a different approach.
Growth Strategy Minister Minoru Kiuchi said Japan is no longer in "an era of monetary easing,” but has entered a phase in which prices are gradually rising and interest rates are climbing.
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2026
Japan growth minister says economy has exited reflationary phase
Minoru Kiuchi’s comments follow renewed weakness in the yen and further gains in government bond yields this week.
A woman walks past an electronic quotation board in Tokyo on Monday. The Bank of Japan must decide whether to counter yen?driven inflation through higher rates or preserve ultralow borrowing costs despite the strain on households.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 15, 2026
Japan must choose between cheap money and a livable yen
The BOJ must decide whether to counter inflation through higher rates or preserve ultralow borrowing costs despite the strain on households.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is putting pressure on the Bank of Japan for a rate hike, noting that Japan has “probably reached the end of Abenomics,” a time when the prime minister and central bank were in lockstep.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2026
Bessent pushes BOJ as he signals end of Abenomics
A September hike is likely already planned, and what the market is expecting is “hawkish communication” from the BOJ.
Japanese stocks performed poorly over the summer, in part due to the volatility of tech-related shares.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 7, 2026
Weak yen not always good for Tokyo stocks, some analysts say
Conventional wisdom about the market being helped by a falling currency might not hold if rates climb.
Sanae Takaichi’s economic strategy seeks to break 91AV原创 stagnation by boosting investment and demand despite high debt, a theory that remains promising but uncertain according to some experts.
COMMENTARY
Apr 27, 2026
Struggling to understand Sanaenomics? A new book helps.
Takaichi argues the solution is investment — with Aida proposing a “high-pressure economy” where demand outstrips supply and the government breaks the deadlock.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi talks with 91AV原创 then-leader, Shinzo Abe, her mentor, at the Lower House of Parliament in December 2014. Takaichi, under so-called Abenomics 2.0, must convert the nation’s asset boom into broad-based economic prosperity benefiting all.?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 14, 2025
How Takaichi can make ‘Abenomics 2.0’ succeed
For now, there is absolutely no evidence that the rise in Japanese asset prices — both stocks and real estate — is feeding a positive wealth effect.
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2025
The Toyota buyout is a major test for 91AV原创 reforms
A letter signed by two dozen investors addressed “widespread concern” about the plan to buy out Toyota Industries Corp., also known as TICO.
Amid the election of Sanae Takaichi as Liberal Democratic Party president, and possibly the next prime minister, Japan's economy shows signs of recovery, but weak wages, a conservative corporate culture and currency issues raise doubts about a true economic thaw.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 13, 2025
Hypothermia in the land of the rising Sanae
Of late, the country has suddenly given every impression of heat. There are good reasons to believe hypothermia is over.
Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Sanae Takaichi mark a win by a party candidate in the July 2013 Upper House election. There is ongoing debate over whether Takaichi's economic approach will mirror the former prime minister's Abenomics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 10, 2025
The ‘Takaichi trade’ isn’t Abenomics 2.0, and that’s OK
Party leader Takaichi has been left with one of the poorest positions imaginable. The LDP is a minority in both houses of parliament.
An electronic stock board displays the 225-issue Nikkei average and the rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 1, 2024
Ishiba cool on Abenomics, pragmatic and a bit of a mystery
Analysts argue that the new prime minister will be more like former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida than former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Shigeru Ishiba speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 7, 2024
LDP bigwig Ishiba endorses BOJ’s rate hikes
“The Bank of Japan?is on the right policy track” in raising interest rates, Shigeru Ishiba said.
Despite Shinzo Abe's numerous achievements as prime minister, including job creation and efforts to promote workforce gender equality, recent controversies surrounding his tenure, including ties to controversial groups and scandals within his political faction, have tarnished his image.
COMMENTARY
May 7, 2024
The economic legacy of 91AV原创 longest-serving prime minister
Under Abenomics and the BOJ’s monetary policy, employment rose more than under any other Japanese government in the 21st century.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 12, 2023
91AV原创 giant of central banking
Critics of former BOJ Gov. Kuroda complain that he never achieved the 2% inflation target. What they fail to acknowledge is his policies led to a dramatic strengthening of the labor market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2023
With BOJ pick, Kishida strikes political balance and draws line under Abenomics
Having an academic helm the BOJ is unprecedented in Japan, where the job traditionally rotates between a central banker and an official from the Finance Ministry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2022
One year on, Kishida’s ‘new capitalism’ hardly moves forward
After 12 months of economic and political headwinds — from a plummeting yen to the Unification Church scandal — Kishida’s pivot from Abenomics remains ‘conceptual.’
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 27, 2022
The legacy of Abenomics lies between two extremes
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies were a mixed bag for Japan — still, he successfully pushed the country to re-imagine itself.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2022
A man who genuinely cared: Mourning the real Shinzo Abe
Though the slain former Japanese prime minister belonged to the hawkish wing of his party, he was not the unbending nationalist conservative that many foreigners deemed him to be.
JAPAN
Jul 21, 2022
Poll shows close to 50% in Japan support restarting some nuclear reactors
The proportion of respondents who expressed opposition came to 27.9%, while 23.8% said they had no opinion or did not know.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.

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