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Economic Report Summary
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Increase in Inbound Tourism ConsumptionThe number of foreign tourists visiting Japan in recent years has been on the increase and rose to an historic high of 1...2015/07/09
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Declining Labor ForceJapan’s unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) stood at 3.3% in April 2015, the lowest level since April 1988, and it a...2015/06/25
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Fiscal Soundness Issues to Be Addressed after Overcoming DeflationThe primary balance of Japan’s national and local government accounts have been in deficit since the first half of the 1...2015/04/02
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Hopes Rising for Female Labor ForceThe percentage of female workers in Japan’s labor force is rising. Looking ahead, as the population declines and the tre...2015/04/02
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Will Wages Increase?During the latter half of the 1990s, the domestic economy deteriorated, and, because corporations restrained labor costs...2013/04/04
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Growth Potential of the U.S. Economy and the “Shale Revolution”With the financial crisis as a trigger, concerns arose that the growth potential of the U.S. economy would decline. Notw...2013/03/13
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Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreement StrategyAs the presence in world trade of developing and newly emerging countries becomes more prominent, the WTO’s Doha Develop...2013/03/04
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Medium-Term Outlook for the Japanese Economy (Fiscal 2012 to Fiscal 2025)I. Assumptions of the Medium-Term Outlook (1) Increases in the Consumption Tax (2) Outlook for Overseas Economies II. Su...2013/02/21
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Corporate Cash Flows Enter a New PhaseIf we define “corporate excess cash” as the difference between the cash flows that corporations generate from their busi...2012/03/01
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Medium-Term Outlook for the Japanese Economy (Fiscal 2011 to Fiscal 2020)I. Effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake II. Summary of the Medium-Term Outlook Ⅲ． Outlook for the World Economy2012/01/01
Forecast for the Japanese Economy
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The Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2020 and Fiscal 20211.Current State of the Economy —We have come through the worst and the economy is gradually recovering 2.Outlook for the...2020/12/08
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2014 and 2015: November 20141. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2014 and Fiscal 2015 – Even if the Economy Bottoms Out, the Pace of Recove...2014/12/12
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2014 and 2015: August 20141. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2014 and Fiscal 2015 – Even if Improvement in the Economy Continues, the P...2014/09/08
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2014 and 2015: May 20141. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2014 and Fiscal 2015 – Even if Improvement in the Economy Continues, the P...2014/06/06
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2014 and 2015: February 20141. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2014 and Fiscal 2015 – Improvement in the Economy Will Continue Even after...2014/04/10
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2013 and 2014: November 20131. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2013 and Fiscal 2014 – Improvement in the Economy Will Continue Even after...2013/12/19
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy In Fiscal 2013 and 2014: August 20131. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2013 and Fiscal 2014 – Continued Trend toward Improvement, but Temporary S...2013/09/04
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy In Fiscal 2013 and 2014: June 20131. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2013 and Fiscal 2014 – The Trend toward Improvement Will Strengthen,but Ov...2013/06/11
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy In Fiscal 2013 and 2014: February 20131. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2013 and Fiscal 2014 — The Trend toward Improvement Will Strengthen (1)Cur...2013/03/06
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Forecast for the Japanese Economy In Fiscal 2012 and 2013: November 20121. Outlook for the Japanese Economy in Fiscal 2012 and Fiscal 2013 — Even if the Economy Can Quickly Emerge from a Perio...2012/12/05
Global Watch
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Global Watch:March 2017§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Showing Moderate Improvement 2. Topic of the Month: ...2017/04/18
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Global Watch:February 2017§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Showing Moderate Improvement 2. Topic of the Month: ...2017/03/17
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Global Watch:January 2017§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Showing Moderate Improvement 2. Topic of the Month: ...2017/02/08
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Global Watch:December 2016§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Continuing to Fluctuate within a Narrow Range with Signs o...2017/01/20
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Global Watch:November 2016§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Remains Virtually Flat with Some Signs of Improvement 2....2016/12/02
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Global Watch:October 2016§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Remains Virtually Flat with Some Signs of Improvement 2....2016/11/15
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Global Watch:September 2016§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Remains Virtually Flat 2. Topic of the Month: Rising...2016/10/27
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Global Watch:August 2016§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Remains Roughly Flat 2. Topic of the Month: Do the O...2016/09/05
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Global Watch:July 2016§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Remains Roughly Flat with Weak Trends in Some Areas 2. T...2016/08/03
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Global Watch:June 2016§ Japanese Economy 1. Overview of the Japanese Economy: Remains Roughly Flat with Weak Trends in Some Areas 2. T...2016/07/05
Quarterly Journal of Public Policy & Management
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Ideal Ways and Key Points of Practice for Promoting Public Facility Management in Local GovernmentThe 2012 accident at Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway has led, in a significant way, to a growing sense of crisis ab...2014/08/08
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Widespread awareness of Global Environmental Problems in CommunitiesA certain amount of time will be necessary before the new concept of natural capital comes to be widely accepted as part...2014/08/08
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Trends and Issues in Economic Evaluation of the Value Generated by Natural CapitalAgainst a backdrop of global trends surrounding natural capital and the introduction of policy evaluation systems and ne...2014/08/08
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Natural Capital and the Level of Happiness of Community ResidentsVarious studies have made it clear that natural capital is a factor that increases individuals’level of happiness. Howev...2014/08/08
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Trends in Natural Capital Management in Japan and the WorldThe Quarterly Journal of Public Policy & Management is a quarterly magazine of Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulti...2014/08/08
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Creative City and Regional Development through International Cultural ProjectsThe Culture City of East Asia program began holding events in Yokohama in February 2014. The program, implemented in Jap...2014/05/21
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Current State of Human Resource Management in IndonesiaSince around the 1970s, many Japanese firms have opened locations in Indonesia. The expansion of Japanese firms in Indon...2014/05/21
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Global Group Management and Globally Competitive ProfessionalsThe objective of the recent overseas expansion by Japanese companies reveals a shift from their objective in the past: T...2014/05/21
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What Firms Should Provide to Produce Successful，Globally Competitive ProfessionalsIf globally competitive professionals are those capable of fulfilling their duties and contributing to their organizatio...2014/05/21
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Human Resource System Reform 3.0Genuine human resource system reform in Japanese firms began with the collapse of the bubble economy in 1990. Since that...2014/05/21
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