Category Archives: Shinz? Abe
Exit Polls Project Sweeping Victory, Supermajority For Japan’s Abe
As widely expected, Japan Prime Minister Abe’s ruling coalition is set for a sweeping victory in Sunday’s general election, and may retain the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to revise Japan’s constitution, according to an NHK exit poll. Shortly after polls closed at 8pm, an NHK exit poll showed that Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party and coalition […]
North Korea Fires ICBM Missile; Flies 45 Minutes, Lands In Japan Waters
Perhaps sensing that Trump is rather vulnerable right now, and confirming reports from two days ago that an ICBM launch is imminent, moments ago Japan’s NHK reported that North Korea has fired “what appears to be a missile”, which Kyodo has since classified as an ICBM, which landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. The Pentagon, […]
Japanese Wages Fall At Fastest Pace In 2 Years; Kuroda Admits His Job Is “Challenging”
Buying stocks, bonds, and generally printing money willy-nilly is hard work according to BoJ Governor Kuroda who remarked tonight that “the job of a central banker is challenging.” Perhaps the reason for his emotional outburst is the fact that Japanese wages just plunged in March – the biggest drop since June 2015 as the economic […]
Immigrants Flood Into Japan At A Record Pace
Japan’s demographic “time-bomb” has been widely documented in recent years: as we discussed most recently in February, as troubling as Japan’s deflationary economic quagmire is, the biggest threat facing Japan has little to do with its balance sheet and everything to do with its demographics, for the simple reason that not only is Japan’s population […]
“We Need To Prepare Umbrellas For A Rainy Day”: Japan Gears Up For Trade War
While so far Trump’s trade focus was fallen mostly on Nafta countries, and to a lesser extent China, one country that is taking precautionary steps is the one which recently suffered a major loss when Trump signed an executive order to exit the TPP, effectively killing the trade deal: Japan. The TPP, which took years […]