Together, these studies present a compelling and consistent story of the Japanese economy. Financial system problems, largely triggered by the bursting of the asset price bubble in the early 1990s, ...

In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Japanese Minister of Finance Katsunobu Kato mentioned that Japan had yet to ...

Data shows recovery spreading to regional areas, thanks to sustained economic growth, in the latest sign of a pickup in the ...

As asset prices grew, so did speculation ... Worried about inflationary pressures, and attempting to quell the bubble, the Bank of Japan began a series of steep interest rate increases from ...

The shift arose at the height of the late 1980s Japanese asset price bubble, which later burst. The end of this speculative mania left foreign and domestic investors deeply sceptical about Japan ...

which should accompany policy normalisation Japan's economy has stuck to stagnation with effectively no nominal GDP growth in past three decades after the asset price bubble burst in the early 1990s.

It was the fastest pace since 1991, before land prices began a long decline in the wake of the bursting of the asset “bubble.” “Japan’s overall land prices continued its rising trend amid ...

The shift arose at the height of the late 1980s Japanese asset price bubble, which later burst. The end of this speculative mania left foreign and domestic investors deeply sceptical about Japan’s ...