New Report
-
Column11/03/2024
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for February 2024
In February, the Nikkei Stock Average moved back and forth in the early 36,000 range at the beginning of the month as expectation...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
-
Column22/02/2024
Foreign Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market (by region): An Analysis for January 2024
The Tokyo Stock Exchange publishes the trading trends of nonresidential investors in cash equities by region—'North America...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
-
16/02/2024
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2023 to 2025 (February 2024)
In the October–December quarter of 2023, the real GDP grew at an annualized rate of ˗0.4% from the previous quarter, which marke...
-
Column13/02/2024
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for January 2024
In the first half of January, the Nikkei Stock Average experiencing a decline on January 4th, the first trading day of the year, l...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
-
09/02/2024
Comparison of Real Estate Bubbles in China and Japan, and Prospects for the Chinese Economy
The slowdown in China's real estate market persists, with house prices gradually decreasing. Sales have fallen to a recent pea...
Koukichiro Mio
Economic Research Department
-
07/02/2024
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Fourth Quarter 2023
Japan’s real GDP is expected to increase by 0.2% q-o-q (annualized 0.9% decrease) in Q4 2023, the first positive growth in two qu...
Makoto Sakuma
Financial Research Department
-
Column12/01/2024
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for December 2023 and the Full Year
In December 2023, the Nikkei Stock Average experienced notable fluctuations, primarily influenced by the monetary policy ou...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
-
16/11/2023
Japan's Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2023 to 2025 (November 2023)
In the July–September quarter of 2023, Japan’s real GDP experienced negative growth for the first time in three quarters, cont...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
-
09/11/2023
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Third Quarter 2023
Japan’s real GDP is expected to decrease by 0.2% q-o-q (annualized 0.9% decrease) in Q3 2023, weighed down by the negative impac...
Yoshida Tasuku
Financial Research Department
-
16/08/2023
Japan’s Economic Outlook for the Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024 (August 2023)
Real GDP grew at a high rate of 1.5% from the previous quarter (equivalent to an annualized rate of 6.0%) in the April-June quarte...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
-
09/08/2023
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Second Quarter 2023
Japan’s real GDP is expected to increased by +0.8% q-o-q (annualized 3.1% increase) in Q2 2023, bolstered by robust exports in b...
Watanabe Fumiko
Financial Research Department
-
Column25/05/2023
Achieving world peace through art and culture: A declaration at the Busan International Cultural Forum
Last month, on 4 and 5 May, I attended the Busan Cultural Conference in South Korea. I was invited by the Busan Cultural Foundatio...
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -
18/05/2023
Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024 (May 2023)
Real GDP in the January–March quarter of 2023 grew at an annualized rate of 1.6%, the first positive growth in three quart...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
-
12/05/2023
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-First Quarter 2023
Japan’s real GDP is expected to increase by +0.1% q-o-q (annualized 0.3% increase) in Q1 2023, with steady private consumption ...
Hiroto Iwasa
Financial Research Department
-
13/04/2023
Japan's Productivity through the Lens of “Cheap Japan”
Historically, Japan was recognized as an expensive country, and the issue of the domestic–foreign price gap was subject to ext...
-
Column03/03/2023
"Cheap Japan" through the lens of the Big Mac
In recent years, the so-called "cheap Japan" phenomenon, where prices in Japan are cheaper than other countries, has often bee...
-
01/03/2023
Summary Results of the 7th Survey of Nuclear Disaster Evacuees from Futaba, Fukushima-The First Survey since the Start of Return*-
Surveys on damage, living environment and reconstruction under the Great East Japan Earthquake have been conducted by a resea...
Keiko Iwasaki
Insurance Research Department
-
15/02/2023
Japan’s Economic Outlook for the Fiscal Years 2022 to 2024 (February 2023)
Real GDP grew at an annual rate of 0.6% from the previous quarter in the October–December quarter of 2022, which marked the first ...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
-
07/02/2023
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Fourth Quarter 2022
Japan’s real GDP is expected to increase by 0.3% q-o-q (annualized 1.0% increase) in Q4 2022, led by private consumption and for...
Makoto Sakuma
Financial Research Department
-
16/11/2022
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2022 to 2024 (November 2022)
However, this does not mean that the economy is deteriorating, as the main cause is the deterioration of external demand due to a ...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
-
09/11/2022
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Third Quarter 2022
Japan’s real GDP is expected to increase by 0.4% q-o-q (annualized 1.5% increase) in Q3 2022, with steady domestic demand cover...
Yoshida Tasuku
Financial Research Department
-
12/10/2022
Medium-Term Economic Outlook (FY2022 to FY2032)
Global real GDP growth rate is projected to slow down to 2.8% in 2023 due to higher inflation and monetary tightening despite pro...
-
16/08/2022
JAPAN’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023 (August 2022)
In the April–June quarter of 2022, real GDP grew from the previous quarter at an annualized rate of 2.2%, driven in part by a stron...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
-
10/08/2022
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Second Quarter 2022
Japan’s real GDP is expected to increase by 0.8% q-o-q (annualized 3.2% increase) in Q2 2022, driven by the rebound of consumpti...
Watanabe Fumiko
Financial Research Department
-
26/05/2022
Will Consumer Prices in Japan Continue to Rise?-Future Prospects for Consumer Prices
Consumer prices in Japan are rising. The consumer price index (CPI, all items less fresh food) has increased for the past 11 cons...
-
19/05/2022
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal 2022 and 2023 (May 2022)
In the January-March quarter of 2022, real GDP posted an annualized growth rate of negative 1.0%, the first decline in 2 quarter...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
-
18/05/2022
Reflections on Financial Regulators’ Initial Responses to COVID-19
More than two years have passed since the outbreak of COVID-19. The world may have to live with the pandemic and its legacies for f...
Ryozo Himino -
13/05/2022
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-First Quarter 2022
Japan’s real GDP is expected to decline by 0.5% q-o-q (annualized 2.1% decline) in Q1 2022, dragged by the quasi-state of emerge...
Hiroto Iwasa
Financial Research Department
-
16/02/2022
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal 2021 to 2023 (February 2022)
In the October–December quarter of 2021, real GDP posted an annualized growth rate of 5.4%, the first increase in two quarters, ...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
-
04/02/2022
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Fourth Quarter 2021
Japan’s real GDP is expected to grow by 1.4% q-o-q (annualized 5.6%) in Q4 2021 driven by a strong rebound of private consumption ...
Makoto Sakuma
Financial Research Department
Social media account
Researcher
-
Shingo Ide
New Equity Index May Overcome Problems of Capitalization-Weighted Indexing
-
Yasuhide Yajima
The U.S. Dollar’s Amazing Strength in the Deepening Financial Crisis
-
Kim Myoungjung
Future Issues of Indefinite Employment Reclassification Rule - Learning from the Precedent in South Korea -
-
Kanako Amano
An International Comparison and Analysis of Japan's High Suicide Rate
-
Sayuri Ito
What is the prospects of trilateral cooperation to the WTO reform?
-
Taro Saito
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2023 to 2025 (February 2024)