Debt gallops in Japan
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&quot;We have achieved a lot,&quot; said a senior Ministry of Finance (MOF) official on Monday while presenting the heavily debt-ridden central government budget for fiscal 2005.
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Japan industrialists are gloomier about the economic outlook for the first time since March 2003,  the central bank's quarterly Tankan survey finds.
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Mizuho, Japan's biggest bank, says a sharp fall in bad debts means good news ahead - despite a dip in current profits.
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Three Japanese banks that have been asked to provide $5 billion each to a subprime support fund planned by U.S. banks have balked at what they see as an unreasonably high figure, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.
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Japan has said that corporate investment slowed from its recent breakneck pace in the three months to September, raising fears of a downgrade in economic growth for the quarter.
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Japanese interest rates stay on hold at 0.5% for the sixth time in a row, reflecting caution about future economic prospects.
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Japan's unemployment rate unexpectedly climbed for the second consecutive month in September, prompting warnings from economists that the country's five-year expansion may be showing signs of fraying.
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Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--The balance of shares bought on margin in Japan dropped last week as the Nikkei average's advance to a multiyear high prompted traders to take profits, a Tokyo Stock Exchange report showed Tuesday.
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Masatsugu Asakawa has one of the busiest jobs in Tokyo these days: monitoring the US dollar&#39;s fluctuation against the Japanese yen.
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TOKYO, Feb. 16 -- Japan's gross domestic product unexpectedly shrank in the three months ended Dec. 31, and revised figures also showed a contraction in the previous period, throwing the economy into its fourth recession since 1991.
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The Bank of Japan raised its main  interest rate on Wednesday by a quarter percentage point to  0.50 percent, the highest in more than a decade, but the yen  retreated as the central bank signaled caution on further  increases.
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If, like me, you are one of those "value"-style investors who believed that Japan must be due a recovery any year now, you may be despairing of it ever happening. So are millions of Japanese investors.
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Japanese stocks fell Friday, breaking a six-session rally, as investors took profits after the market reached a seven-year high the previous day.
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Japanâs most closely watched business sentiment barometer rose to its highest in 13 years in September but the outlook for the coming months dimmed, underscoring concern that the economic recovery is losing steam.
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Japan sees an unexpected drop in its current account surplus, but exports continue to drive growth, figures say.
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Top Japanese finance officials gave conflicting economic assessments Friday, with the central bank chief predicting a slowdown in Japan while the economy minister said she saw no sign of one.
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Japanâs economy contracted in the April-June quarter, the government said in a revision of its preliminary estimate that it had expanded. The latest data suggest that Japanâs economy may be suffering a slowdown in its pace of growth, making it harder for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates anytime soon. The government said the nationâs gross domestic product fell 1.2 percent on an annual basis in the April-June period, the first contraction in three quarters. Its preliminary estimate was that the economy had grown 0.5 percent in the spring quarter.