In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Japanese Minister of Finance Katsunobu Kato mentioned that Japan had yet to combat deflation despite rising consumer prices and a surge in wages. Kato ...

Until recently, Japanese businesses and markets have moved only gradually ... the impact of the debt overhang after the bubble burst, the effects of falling stock prices, and cyclical factors. It ...

Many major Japanese companies, including Toyota Motor Corp., on Wednesday fully met the wage hike demands of their labor ...

The second factor was the onset of a recession in Japan in March of 2000 ... internet players that met their end when the tech bubble burst or soon after. What defines a recession varies depending ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda scrapped the world’s last negative interest rate and its massive stimulus program a year ago, ...

which should accompany policy normalisation Japan's economy has stuck to stagnation with effectively no nominal GDP growth in past three decades after the asset price bubble burst in the early 1990s.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index surged Thursday past the record it set in 1989 before its financial bubble burst, ushering in an era of faltering growth. The index closed Thursday at 39,098. ...

Higher rates burst the bubble in Japan, too. The first interest rate hike came in March 1989; in December of that year, the Nikkei 225 peaked, and the bubble popped. And the Nifty Fifty bubble met ...

Worried about inflationary pressures, and attempting to quell the bubble, the Bank of Japan began a series of steep interest rate increases from 2.5% to 4.25% at the end of 1989, and then to 6% in ...

Japan’s gross domestic product ... When the late 1980s asset-inflated economic bubble burst, companies downsized operations by slashing payrolls and selling off idle assets.