Weakness in Demand Shrivels Japan's Output
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Japan's economy grew at a worse-than-expected annual pace of 0.3 percent in the third quarter as exports and capital expenditures weakened.
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Japan's Nikkei closed down 0.84 percent  Monday after a weak U.S. jobs report kept the dollar near a  five-year low against the yen, helping reverse recent gains in  exporters such as Nissan Motor Co.
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Japan's economy grows just 0.1% in the third quarter, hit by faltering exports and a slowdown in corporate investment.
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Japanâs producer prices rose at the slowest pace in more than a year in January as oil costs fell, easing pressure on companies to pass expenses on to consumers.
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Japan's trade surplus in August fell sharply for the first decline in 14 months as higher costs for imported oil combined with weaker export growth, prompting concerns about the country's economic outlook, the finance ministry said.
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Japanese stocks dropped, with benchmarks poised for their biggest slides in six months. Exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. led decline after the dollar plunged to its lowest against
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Japan's rate of economic expansion is revised downwards for the three months to June amid falling government investment.
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Japanese industrial output rose only 0.3 percent in August, suggesting after a series of recent weak data that the recovery in the world's second-largest economy is slowing, economists said.
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Japan's industrial production falls and unemployment rises, providing more evidence of a slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
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Japanese car sales fall to a 35-year low as a shrinking population and limited wage growth hurt demand.
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The Japanese economy is close to stagnation, according to revisions to official figures yesterday that cut the estimate of GDP growth to just 0.1 per cent.
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Support for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his cabinet slid sharply to 37 percent in a poll taken after his decision to extend the mandate of Japanese troops serving in Iraq, a national daily said on Sunday.
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Japanese shares closed down on Friday, with exporters broadly lower after the yen strengthened to above the key Y115 level against the dollar.
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The countryÂs trade surplus narrowed more than expected as American demand cooled, signaling the impetus exports contributed to economic growth last quarter is fading. The trade surplus fell 24.8 percent, to 614.7 billion yen ($5.2 billion) in October from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance said. Demand for Japanese exports is cooling after the American market, JapanÂs largest grew at the slowest pace in more than three years.
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Industrial output in Japan shows a surprise drop of 0.7% in July, as export growth slows, the government says.
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Tokyo's Nikkei stock average ended down almost one percent on Thursday after surprisingly weak machinery orders data jolted investor confidence in Japan's economic outlook and triggered selling across the board.
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A string of disappointing economic reports released Tuesday heightened concerns that Japan's recovery may be fading fast.