This is an excerpt from a longer video of the #CCP's military channel at https://t.co/PFGFL3Mwrs. It was uploaded two days ago, and has 2.37 M views, 11K comments and 88K likes so far. The channel has 2 M subscribers. — …
熱海の土石流災害、安否不明が20人を超える。#豪雨 #拡散希望 pic.twitter.com/aTGDXpyMob — 北新地便所 (@shinchi_benjo) July 3, 2021
Five Asian countries are responsible for 80 percent of new coal power stations planned worldwide, with the projects threatening goals to fight the climate crisis, a report warned Wednesday. China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam are planning to build more …
The United States and Japan are conducting joint war games and exercises in the event of a conflict with China over Taiwan, amid mounting concerns about the assertive activity of the Chinese military. US and Japanese military officials began serious …
By Charles Kennedy Japan will release some 1 million tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, the country’s government said amid strong opposition from Japan’s neighbors. The move, according to them, was “extremely irresponsible”, …
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https://www.reuters.com/article/japan-insurers-bonds-idUSL4N2LM10V Executives at Japan’s top four insurers, which manage more than $1.6 trillion in assets, told Reuters U.S. bonds are becoming attractive at yields near 2%. Japanese life insurers have been selling foreign bonds for eight months since July, their …
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Tokyo (VAAC) issued the following report: FVFE01 at 11:59 UTC, 13/03/21 from RJTD VA ADVISORY DTG: 20210313/1159Z VAAC: TOKYO VOLCANO: SAKURAJIMA [AIRA CALDERA] 282080 PSN: N3136 E13039 AREA: JAPAN SUMMIT ELEV: 1117M ADVISORY NR: 2021/159 INFO …
by Martin Armstrong BoJ Statement 4-24-2019 The Great Financial Unknown is now upon us. After 10 years of Quantitative Easing, the European Central Bank (ECB) in Europe owns 40% of the national debts in the EU and it can neither …
by Martin Armstrong In Japan, Nomura’s chief Koji Nagai took over as Nomura’s chief executive back in 2012 and followed that appointment with a $1bn cost-reduction plan that was criticized both externally and internally for failing to target the inefficient …
Japan is the model for success. They’ve been printing money and hey look, everything is fine… So why are they quickly becoming the only buyer? Japan is the model for success under QE, I’ve heard countless times. It’s odd though …
By John Mauldin I’m slowly losing confidence in the economy. I still think the economy is okay for now. But I also see recession odds rising considerably in 2020. Maybe it will get pushed back another year or two, but at some …
By John Mauldin After World War II, Japan experienced rapid growth as the US and others helped rebuild its economy. This led to a roaring expansion that culminated in the 1980s Japanese asset bubble. It popped in the early 1990s …
Last year, five nuclear reactors restarted their operations in Japan. They were part of a group of reactors that had been closed soon after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Thus, the return of those reactors will change the proportions …
by Shaun Richards Today I wish to invert my usual rule and open with a look at financial markets because in this instance they help to give us an insight into the real economy. The Nikkei 225 average tumbled 650.23 …
by WARREN MOSLER Decelerating global trade hitting home: U.S. manufacturing sector slowing as economy loses steam (Reuters) The Fed said manufacturing production dropped 0.4 percent last month. January was revised up to show output falling 0.5 percent instead of slumping …
by WARREN MOSLER Japan downgrades industrial outlook for first time in 40 months (Nikkei) The Japanese government on Thursday downgraded its monthly assessment of industrial output for the first time in more than three years. The Cabinet Office’s economic report …
by WARREN MOSLER Tariff man, aka Agent Orange, doing a number on global economies… Just went negative: Services moved up some but the trend still looks down: Japan appearing to be collapsing as well: And these recent headlines: Argentina Leading …
by WARREN MOSLER Japan exports hit by biggest fall in 2 years on weak China demand (Reuters) Japan’s exports fell 8.4 percent in the year to January. It was the sharpest annual decline since October 2016, and followed a revised …
by Shaun Richards It is time for another chapter of our Discovering Japan ( h/t Graham Parker and the Rumour) series and let us open by dipping into Japanese culture. As spring approaches, the country’s weather forecasters face one of …
by bartturner Apple overreached for sure. People followed Apple rapidly from $400 for a new phone over a few years to $800 a phone, aided by cell phone companies amortizing the costs into people’s plans over a long term. But …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter During the selloff in December, the BOJ shed $31 billion, but in January it piled on. Total assets on the Bank of Japan’s mammoth balance sheet, after a drop of ¥3.4 trillion ($31 billion) in December, rose by ¥4.8 trillion …
In Japan, corporate life is so intense there’s actually a word to refer to people dying from overworking: Karoshi, which literally translates to “death by overwork.” In 2013, 31-year-old journalist Miwa Sado logged 159 hours of overtime in one month …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Central-Bank Stimulus Fail: The longer it drags on, the worse it gets? Manufacturing in the powerhouses Germany, Japan, and China took a hit – all of them complaining about exports. But US manufacturing continues to expand, …
Make European recessions great again pic.twitter.com/TOiHIFVT4y — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 24, 2019 Economist: The euro area is back on the brink of recession The euro has been an economic fiasco. GDP growth in the euro area has lagged behind that …
via @StockBoardAsset: China, Japan, & South Korea have been leading the recent market swoon Baltic Dry & Tanker rates fading hard in the first few weeks into 2019, not an optimistic sign for global trade lot of headlines from China Global …
by confoundedinterest17 Jaoan once again joins Switzerland as having the world’s only negative 10-year sovereign yield. And Japan has a curiouly flat (and negative) yield curve at tenors less than 15 years whle the US sovereign yield curve is lumpy between …
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average tumbled 5 per cent into a bear market on Christmas Day as the global equity rout continued unabated in the last week of the year, with renewed turmoil in Washington rattling investors. Tuesday’s selloff …
