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Japanese Economy Heading Towards a Recession

December 10, 2012
Asia
China
Democratic Party of Japan
DPJ
East Asia
economic stimulus
Economics
Economy
Global Economy
Japan
Japanese economy
LDP
Liberal Democratic Party
People's Republic of China
politics
PRC
Yoshihiko Noda

Preliminary figures suggest that the economy of Japan is heading for a recession after a year with strained relations with China, a major trading partner, and an extremely strong yen currency, both of which have combined to result in a slowdown for the world’s third largest economy. Revised official data on Monday morning showed that […]

Japan selects former finance minister as new Prime Minister.

August 30, 2011
Democratic Party of Japan
DPJ
Japan
Japan Tsunami 2011
Japanese Debt
LDP
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
Naoto Kan
Prime Minister of Japan
Yoshihiko Noda

Yoshihiko Noda will be the 6th Prime Minister of Japan elected in the past five years. He comes as Naoto Kan’s replacement, fulfilling Kan’s promise to step down as soon as the tsunami and its attendant crises had been sufficiently allayed. Like Kan, Yoshihiko Noda is from the Democratic Party of Japan, the first political […]