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- Dec. 30, 2013Prime Minister Abe Shinzo attended the 2013 Year-end Closing Ceremony of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and said, “As a result of our collective hard work and new policies, the economy has shifted dramatically from negative to positive growth, and the average current profits of the 1,300 companies on the TOPIX have increased by 50%. […] In September of this year, I visited the New York Stock Exchange. There, I declared 'Buy my Abenomics.' […] Everyone, I have come here to declare that next year too, Abenomics is a 'buy.'”
- Dec. 24, 2013The Monthly Economic Report for December assesses the current state of the Japanese economy, stating that "The Japanese economy is on the way to recovery at a moderate pace. And prices are holding firm (the state is no longer at the stage of deflation)."
- Dec. 20, 2013At the Government-Labor-Management Meeting for Realizing a Positive Cycle of the Economy, both the union side and the management side were able to reach a common understanding on the following. • Ensuring that increases in corporate revenues and profits lead to wage increases and proper subcontract transaction practices; • Realizing diverse forms of regular employment that meet the needs of each workplace, instead of permanently sticking with the dual work styles of regular and irregular employment; and • Taking into account the perspective of promoting work-life balance, proactively holding dialogues between labor and management to realize a flexible way of working that satisfies the wishes of individuals and the business needs of companies
- Dec. 20, 2013Prime Minister Abe Shinzo received a courtesy call from H.E. Mr. Nabil Fahmi, Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
- Dec. 19, 2013Prime Minister Abe Shinzo received a courtesy call from Vice Admiral John W. Miller, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. Fifth Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces.
- Dec. 17, 2013Prime Minister Abe Shinzo received a courtesy call from H.E. Dr. Hussain Al-Shahristani, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq.
- Dec. 16, 2013According to the Bank of Japan's Tankan (Short-term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan), the business conditions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including the non-manufacturing industry, have turned from negative to positive for the first time in 21 years.
- Dec. 16, 2013How to Avoid Making Japan’s Equivalent of the NIH a Pie in the Sky Idea
- Dec. 16, 2013The Prospects for the Japanese Economy with a Higher Consumption Tax
- Dec. 16, 2013Farewell to Mega-pessimism