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© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Japan exports climb on surging demand for cars, machinery
By Elaine Kurtenbach TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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gokai_wo_maneku
Interesting to see that there are so many exports in spite of all the scandals about quality control.
Andrew Crisp
Interesting to see that all action is in exports despite what the Government does to stimulate demand in the local economy.
daito_hak
Interesting to see that the tittle of the article which originally focused on the strong fall of the trade surplus was changed to a completely different and more positively oriented one.
Why is that?
Moderator
Because the story was updated.
fxgai
A. Crisp, indeed.
Strong world economy seems to be towing the stagnant Japanese economy along.
What efforts the government had made to stimulate the local economy appear not to have worked. They are avoiding all hard decisions. They get an F from me.
LandofExcuses
It is always amusing to read statements such as:
The reality is:
Alfie Noakes
Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin! Down in the morning and up in the evening!
kurisupisu
Exports up for the 5th month in a row and still wages and prices here are stagnant.....
Britlover
JT, but you NEVER post the consensus which had exports using to 15.8%, so this is BELOW expectations. Same with imports, 18.9% but expected to be 20.2%.
JeffLee
It should not be the government's job. But If private-sector employers refuse to pay their workers wages in line with the huge recent growth in corporate income, then someone has to step in - for the sake of the economy.
Rich corporations - poor workers.
fxgai
Agree on that this the extent that they are not the ones who should be running business - but it is the government’s job to make for a free, fair market place where new business ventures can spring up and challenge the status quota operators, without facing various government-imposed barriers to entry.
Your hero Shinzo Abe himself recognized this in his early days as seen in examples like his ‘buy my abenomics’ speech, and his big talk about drilling through bedrock regulations.
Sadly, that talk was cheap. And now he just asks business to do what he wants to achieve, without implementing any actual policy reforms to aid it to happen.