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ABENOMICS

Sanae Takaichi¡¯s economic strategy seeks to break Â鶹´«Ã½ stagnation by boosting investment and demand despite high debt, a theory that remains promising but uncertain according to some experts.
COMMENTARY
Apr 27, 2026
Struggling to understand Sanaenomics? A new book helps.
Takaichi argues the solution is investment ¡ª with Aida proposing a ¡°high-pressure economy¡± where demand outstrips supply and the government breaks the deadlock.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi talks with Â鶹´«Ã½ then-leader, Shinzo Abe, her mentor, at the Lower House of Parliament in December 2014. Takaichi, under so-called Abenomics 2.0, must convert the nation¡¯s asset boom into broad-based economic prosperity benefiting all.?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 14, 2025
How Takaichi can make ¡®Abenomics 2.0¡¯ succeed
For now, there is absolutely no evidence that the rise in Japanese asset prices ¡ª both stocks and real estate ¡ª is feeding a positive wealth effect.
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2025
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Â鶹´«Ã½ reforms
A letter signed by two dozen investors addressed ¡°widespread concern¡± about the plan to buy out Toyota Industries Corp., also known as TICO.
Amid the election of Sanae Takaichi as Liberal Democratic Party president, and possibly the next prime minister, Japan's economy shows signs of recovery, but weak wages, a conservative corporate culture and currency issues raise doubts about a true economic thaw.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 13, 2025
Hypothermia in the land of the rising Sanae
Of late, the country has suddenly given every impression of heat. There are good reasons to believe hypothermia is over.
Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Sanae Takaichi mark a win by a party candidate in the July 2013 Upper House election. There is ongoing debate over whether Takaichi's economic approach will mirror the former prime minister's Abenomics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 10, 2025
The ¡®Takaichi trade¡¯ isn¡¯t Abenomics 2.0, and that¡¯s OK
Party leader Takaichi has been left with one of the poorest positions imaginable. The LDP is a minority in both houses of parliament.
An electronic stock board displays the 225-issue Nikkei average and the rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 1, 2024
Ishiba cool on Abenomics, pragmatic and a bit of a mystery
Analysts argue that the new prime minister will be more like former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida than former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Shigeru Ishiba speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 7, 2024
LDP bigwig Ishiba endorses BOJ¡¯s rate hikes
¡°The Bank of Japan?is on the right policy track¡± in raising interest rates, Shigeru Ishiba said.
Despite Shinzo Abe's numerous achievements as prime minister, including job creation and efforts to promote workforce gender equality, recent controversies surrounding his tenure, including ties to controversial groups and scandals within his political faction, have tarnished his image.
COMMENTARY
May 7, 2024
The economic legacy of Â鶹´«Ã½ longest-serving prime minister
Under Abenomics and the BOJ¡¯s monetary policy, employment rose more than under any other Japanese government in the 21st century.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 12, 2023
Â鶹´«Ã½ giant of central banking
Critics of former BOJ Gov. Kuroda complain that he never achieved the 2% inflation target. What they fail to acknowledge is his policies led to a dramatic strengthening of the labor market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2023
With BOJ pick, Kishida strikes political balance and draws line under Abenomics
Having an academic helm the BOJ is unprecedented in Japan, where the job traditionally rotates between a central banker and an official from the Finance Ministry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2022
One year on, Kishida¡¯s ¡®new capitalism¡¯ hardly moves forward
After 12 months of economic and political headwinds ¡ª from a plummeting yen to the Unification Church scandal ¡ª Kishida¡¯s pivot from Abenomics remains ¡®conceptual.¡¯
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 27, 2022
The legacy of Abenomics lies between two extremes
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe¡¯s economic policies were a mixed bag for Japan ¡ª still, he successfully pushed the country to re-imagine itself.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2022
A man who genuinely cared: Mourning the real Shinzo Abe
Though the slain former Japanese prime minister belonged to the hawkish wing of his party, he was not the unbending nationalist conservative that many foreigners deemed him to be.
JAPAN
Jul 21, 2022
Poll shows close to 50% in Japan support restarting some nuclear reactors
The proportion of respondents who expressed opposition came to 27.9%, while 23.8% said they had no opinion or did not know.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jul 16, 2022
Kishida¡¯s next moves will determine fate of Abe legacy
Prime Minister Kishida¡¯s actions after the election win will reveal the power that Abe¡¯s name retains and the immediate prospects for his legacy.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Jul 11, 2022
Death of Abenomics father may give Japan scope to curb stimulus
The death of Shinzo Abe could eventually allow Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to phase out Abe¡¯s government spending and monetary stimulus.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 10, 2022
Abe¡¯s greatest economic policy legacy is looking careworn
The former premier knew what he wanted from monetary stimulus and the person to get him there: BOJ Gov. Kuroda. But does Japan still support those policies?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jul 9, 2022
Legacy of Abenomics to live beyond its architect
The complicated fallout of Abe¡¯s audacious growth program, both good and bad, continues to ripple through markets and the economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 19, 2022
Â鶹´«Ã½ blurred vision for the future of capitalism
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has finally given the broad strokes of his signature economic growth program. It¡¯s not Abe¡¯s ¡°Three Arrows.¡±
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jun 2, 2022
Kishida¡¯s ¡®new capitalism¡¯ not so new, economists say, but on the right track
Much of the language in this week¡¯s draft economic proposal was familiar, but the new emphasis on human resources could help lift Â鶹´«Ã½ economy.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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