In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Japanese Minister of Finance Katsunobu Kato mentioned that Japan had yet to ...

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 ...

It is difficult now, after three long decades of deadening deflation, to imagine how truly wild the 1980s' bubble was in Japan, and how speculation upended its strait-laced culture. Kazukuni ...

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

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 ...

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.