Analysis13:00 The country is one of the most vaccine-sceptical in the world by Philip Patrick Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a press conference last year. Credit: Getty. The Japanese government is planning to downgrade the status of Covid-19, reclassifying the disease to the level of seasonal flu. Covid is currently at the second most…

TOKYO, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Masami Fujino got his first raise in 20 years recently, but it’s still not enough to let the Tokyo day labourer treat himself to plain McDonald’s hamburgers as much as he used to.”Last year, I finally got a bit of a raise at one place,” said the 54-year-old, who works…

Japan confirmed 79,033 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, a decrease of about 53,000 from a week earlier. The number of severe COVID-19 cases across the country rose by 10 from Friday to 683, while 319 new deaths were reported. In Tokyo, 6,607 new cases were reported, a decline of 4,120 from a week before. Thirty-three…

Japan made global headlines in December with its new National Security Strategy, which dropped the country’s post-World War II pacifist posture to call for counterstrike capabilities. Less visible but in many ways more instructive for U.S. policymakers are Japan’s economic security policies, which aim to shore up its national interests from an economic perspective. These…

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TOKYO : Japan’s industry minister said on Friday he received a supportive letter from French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire about the alliance between Renault and Nissan, which the carmakers are seeking to rebalance.”I received a letter … that stated support for the Nissan-Renault plan. And I have sent back a letter in response,” Minister…

It turns out that the Bank of Japan is pretty unconcerned with what market hive-mind might think about it. Here is a one day USDJPY chart that screams macro hedge fund pain. Since last autumn the winning trade has been to bet on Japanese yen appreciation against the dollar, on the expectation that the BoJ…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida | File Photo | Photo Credit: Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday announced plans to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19 to the equivalent of seasonal influenza in the spring, a move that would further relax mask wearing and other preventive measures as the country seeks to return…