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    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      News in-depthNikkei Asia
      Japan’s online shoppers call time on spending spree

      Retail ecommerce market surged during the pandemic but is showing signs of slowing

    • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
      InterviewJapanese war on deflation
      Japan has ‘once-in-lifetime’ chance to end deflation, says departing BoJ official

      Outspoken reflationist Goushi Kataoka backs bold easing measures to capitalise on rising prices globally

    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      Yen
      Yen rises to two-month high as investors slash short bets

      Japan’s currency has rallied over the past days as the Federal Reserve appears to strike a more dovish tone

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      LexJapanese business & finance
      Japan property: weak yen not enough to boost local Reits Premium content

      The attraction for foreign buyers is obvious but is unlikely to overturn longer-term trend

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      ObituaryShinzo Abe
      Shinzo Abe, influential Japanese prime minister, 1954-2022

      A blue-blooded political showman who sought to revive Japan and revise its pacifist constitution

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      LexJapanese business & finance
      Japanese food: rising prices threaten to eat into margins  Premium content

      The yen’s sharp depreciation has pushed up the cost of imports and logistics

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      Markets InsightBenjamin Shatil
      Why the yen is down but not necessarily cheap

      A sustained appreciation of the currency will ultimately require a shift in the composition of Japanese trade flows

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      The Big Read
      Global inflation: Japan faces a moment of truth

      The collapse of the yen piles pressure on the central bank to change course after decades of loose monetary policy

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      Investors crank up bets on BoJ surrendering yield curve controls

      Wagers against Japanese bonds divide foreign and domestic fund managers

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Bank of Japan
      Yen sinks as BoJ sticks to ultra-loose monetary policy

      Japanese central bank sees inflation as transitory even as US Federal Reserve and others raise rates

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      LexJapanese government bonds
      JGBs/BlueBay: inflation may help short sellers slay the widow maker Premium content

      The sharpest surge in inflation in four decades puts bond vigilantes on a stronger footing

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      Inside BusinessKana Inagaki
      Is ‘Made in Japan’ back with the weaker yen?

      A tight labour market and rise of production outside the country by companies may limit ‘reshoring’ of jobs

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      Currencies
      Yen hits 24-year low against dollar as Japan sticks to loose monetary policy

      Japanese currency comes under further pressure as US Treasury yields rise

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      InterviewJapanese business & finance
      Nomura chief predicts weak yen will kick off foreign M&A wave

      Kentaro Okuda says rate rises and Toshiba privatisation will usher in ‘paradigm shift’ for corporate Japan

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      News in-depth
      Japan’s edict on escorted tourists throws reopening into confusion

      Only travellers who use a guide can visit country, which is desperate to revive $36bn market

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Haruhiko Kuroda
      BoJ’s Kuroda forced to retract claim consumers tolerant of price rises

      Central bank governor tells FT conference impact on yen of rising US rates likely to ease

    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      ‘Different from the US’: why Japan does not worry about inflation

      After decades of stagnation, workers no longer demand higher wages and companies do not pass on price rises

    • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
      News in-depth
      Corporate Japan wary of the sliding yen

      Higher energy and materials costs outweigh benefit of weak currency even for big exporters

    • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
      Disrupted Times
      UK squeezed by inflation at 40-year high

      Japan’s economy shrinks, investors dump Chinese bonds, diversity training demand grows

    • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
      Japan recovery buffeted by Covid restrictions and Ukraine war

      Economy contracts in first quarter as government faces pressure to address cost of living squeeze

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      Markets InsightZach Pandl
      The yen: a cheap haven for uncertain times

      Japanese currency will find support at a time of rising global recession risks and structural threats to the dollar

    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Yen weakness is an opportunity, not a threat, for Japan

      For the central bank to raise interest rates would be a mistake

    • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
      Leo Lewis
      An ageing population grapples with the spectacle of the plunging yen

      Despite popular disquiet, a weak currency is good for corporate Japan

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      Yen
      Yen slides to 20-year low as BoJ defies global shift to higher rates

      Currency’s fall through ¥130 against the dollar follows central bank vow to keep bond yields at zero

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      Currencies
      Yen’s tumble stirs debate in Tokyo over merits of weak currency

      Fall of 11% in two months to a 20-year low prompts speculation central bank might be forced to intervene

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