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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01 February 2021
JAPAN TO EXTEND COVID-19 STATE OF EMERGENCY ON TUESDAY
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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29 January 2021
JAPAN ENACTS 19 TRIL. YEN EXTRA BUDGET TO FIGHT VIRUS
Japan's parliament enacted Thursday a third extra budget for fiscal 2020 totaling 19.18 trillion yen ($185 billion) to ramp up measures t...
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22 January 2021
JAPAN INSISTS GAMES WILL GO AHEAD AS IT REJECTS REPORT OF CANCELLATION
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...
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12 January 2021
JAPAN TO WIDEN STATE OF EMERGENCY BEYOND TOKYO
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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11 January 2021
80% WANT TOKYO GAMES CANCELLED OR DELAYED: JAPANESE SURVEY
About 80% of people in Japan say this year’s Tokyo Olympics should be canc...
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31 December 2020
JAPAN CONFIRMS 3,599 NEW COVID-19 CASES
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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21 December 2020
JAPAN APPROVES RECORD $1 TRILLION BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR
Japan’s cabinet approved a record budget next fiscal year that tops $1 trillion and adds to the developed world’s heaviest de...
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14 December 2020
JAPAN'S OCT. INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT RISES 4.0%
Japan's industrial output rose 4.0 percent in October from the previous month for the fourth straight month of increase.
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01 December 2020
JAPAN'S JOBLESS RATE RISES TO 3.1% IN OCTOBER
Japan’s jobless rate inched up to 3.1% in October, the Ministry of Interna...
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20 November 2020
JAPAN GOES ON MAXIMUM ALERT ON CORONAVIRUS
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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19 October 2020
JAPAN EXPORTS DOWN BUT SLOWLY RECOVER IN SEPTEMBER
The drop in Japanese exports diminished last month, according to government data released Monday, underlining how trade damage from the...
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02 October 2020
JAPAN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR AUGUST 3.0%
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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01 October 2020
TECHNICAL GLITCH HALTS TRADING ON JAPAN'S EXCHANGES
A technical problem has forced a full-day halt to trading on Japan's stock exchanges, including the popu...
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17 September 2020
BANK OF JAPAN UPHOLDS POLICIES AS ECONOMY SLOWLY REVIVES
Japan's central bank on Thursday said it would maintain its ultra-loose monetary policy as the virus-hit economy gradually picks up, wi...
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16 September 2020
JAPAN'S EXPORTS FELL AT SLOWER PACE IN AUGUST
Japan's exports fell 14.8% in August from a year earlier, as demand from most regions except for China remained weak amid the pandemic....
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14 September 2020
SUGA ELECTED AS SUCCESSOR TO JAPAN PM ABE IN PARTY VOTE
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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11 September 2020
UK POISED TO STRIKE TRADE DEAL WITH JAPAN
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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08 September 2020
JAPAN'S ECONOMY SHRANK AT RECORD LEVEL
Japan’s economy shrank at a record, even worse rate in the April-June quarter than initially estimated.
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