
15 February 2021
JAPAN'S ECONOMY SHRINKS 4.8% IN 2020 DUE TO COVID
Japan's economy surged in the fourth quarter of 2020, but it wasn't enough to keep the country from negative growth for the year.
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Japan's economy surged in the fourth quarter of 2020, but it wasn't enough to keep the country from negative growth for the year.
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Japan will on Tuesday extend the state of emergency for regions continuing to see a high number of coronavirus infections, government sou...
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Japan's parliament enacted Thursday a third extra budget for fiscal 2020 totaling 19.18 trillion yen ($185 billion) to ramp up measures t...
Read More22 January 2021
Japan doubled down on its commitment to host the Tokyo Olympics this year and flatly denied reports on Friday of a cancellation, in a mov...
Read More12 January 2021
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told a meeting of ruling party executives on Tuesday (Jan 12) he would declare a state of eme...
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About 80% of people in Japan say this year’s Tokyo Olympics should be canc...
Read More31 December 2020
Japan confirmed 3,599 new cases of the coronavirus as of 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
This brings the total number of infections in the c...
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Japan’s cabinet approved a record budget next fiscal year that tops $1 trillion and adds to the developed world’s heaviest de...
Read More14 December 2020
Japan's industrial output rose 4.0 percent in October from the previous month for the fourth straight month of increase.
Whi...
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Japan’s jobless rate inched up to 3.1% in October, the Ministry of Interna...
Read More20 November 2020
Tokyo's new coronavirus cases on Thursday topped 500 for the first time since the pandemic began, with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga sayi...
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02 October 2020
Japan's unemployment rate reached the 3 percent level in August for the first time in over three years as the new coronavirus pandemic co...
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A technical problem has forced a full-day halt to trading on Japan's stock exchanges, including the popu...
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16 September 2020
14 September 2020
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the right-hand man of outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was elected as the new presiden...
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The UK is poised to strike its first post-Brexit trade deal after Britain and Japan made a breakthrough on agricultural access,...
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