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Japan exports climb on surging demand for cars, machinery

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By Elaine Kurtenbach

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Interesting to see that there are so many exports in spite of all the scandals about quality control.

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Interesting to see that all action is in exports despite what the Government does to stimulate demand in the local economy.

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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?

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Because the story was updated.

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.

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It is always amusing to read statements such as:

But the economies of Japan's major trading partners are likely to slow in the next year, he said. "We therefore we expect real export growth to slow from 6 percent year-on-year this year to 3 percent in 2018."

The reality is:

Japan - Next year, growth will decelerate somewhat as the tailwinds that propelled the economy this year fade away. Moreover, persistent geopolitical tensions could add upward pressure on the safe-haven yen, hurting the all-important external sector. FocusEconomics panelists see the economy growing 1.2% in 2018, which is up 0.1 percentage points from last month’s forecast. For 2019, they see growth at 1.0%.

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Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin! Down in the morning and up in the evening!

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Exports up for the 5th month in a row and still wages and prices here are stagnant.....

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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%.

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What efforts the government had made to stimulate the local economy appear not to have worked. 

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.

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It should not be the government's job

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.

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