Japan economics thread.

BoraTas

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BoJ owns almost 50% of Japanese government bond. Is it a stroke of a pen that BoJ can write off the bonds and the dept of Japanese government is cut by half?
The government either collects taxes or sells more bonds to pay its debts. BoJ writing off bonds would stop the money flow from the Japanese economy to the BoJ. This is practically the same as money printing. Inflation would break Japan after that
 

pbd456

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The government either collects taxes or sells more bonds to pay its debts. BoJ writing off bonds would stop the money flow from the Japanese economy to the BoJ. This is practically the same as money printing. Inflation would break Japan after that
The money has already the printed. The asset witeoff at BoJ does not change anything to money supply
 

Overbom

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Deflating wage but rising electricity bill and inflation, no wonder Japanese don't want to have babies.
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Government measures scheduled to expire in September are currently holding down electricity prices for households by around 20% as Kishida tries to relieve the pain of soaring costs.
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The Japanese government will allow seven of nation’s major power companies to raise household electricity prices from June, a move likely to add to inflationary pressure.
Price hikes by the companies will be between 14% to 42%, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said in a press conference Tuesday morning
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Households’ real wages have fallen in each of the 12 months through March
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I recommend some heavy drinking for the Japanese to drown their upcoming sorrows
 

luminary

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How old does your society have to be to need something like this?

Billionaire makes money
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Shunsaku Sagami has built an M&A firm that uses a proprietary database and AI to broker deals for elderly founders that cannot find company successors who are about to retire.

M&A Research Institute noted in an April presentation that 620,000 profitable enterprises in Japan are forecast to be at risk of closure because of a lack of successors, and the government estimates that by 2025 there will be
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small- and medium-sized firms whose owners are over 70 years old
. About half of them have no plan in place, which could lead to company shutdowns and 6.5 million jobs lost, costing ¥22 trillion ($162 billion) in gross domestic product.
 

KYli

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$34.7 billion isn't a small amount even for Japan. Most developing nations need to be careful for consuming too much US digital goods as it is very costly and detrimental for their economies.
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Japan’s so-called “digital deficit,” stemming from payments to overseas technology companies like Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., has become large relative to trade and travel in the country’s current-account balance and its continued expansion will pressure the yen, strategists Lhamsuren Sharavdemberel and Shinichiro Kadota wrote in a note Thursday. It reached ¥4.8 trillion ($34.7 billion) last year, almost 90% of Japan’s services account deficit, they said.

Inflation quickens again in Japan.
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KampfAlwin

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I recommend some heavy drinking for the Japanese to drown their upcoming sorrows
Yet, you never hear Japan collapse stories despite showing pretty clear signs of one. Literally all news about Japan is how the 'Samurai is waking up' & militarising, whereas China cannot win a war before 2030 because they're about to collapse lol
$34.7 billion isn't a small amount even for Japan. Most developing nations need to be careful for consuming too much US digital goods as it is very costly and detrimental for their economies.
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Japan’s so-called “digital deficit,” stemming from payments to overseas technology companies like Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., has become large relative to trade and travel in the country’s current-account balance and its continued expansion will pressure the yen, strategists Lhamsuren Sharavdemberel and Shinichiro Kadota wrote in a note Thursday. It reached ¥4.8 trillion ($34.7 billion) last year, almost 90% of Japan’s services account deficit, they said.

Inflation quickens again in Japan.
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I wonder how much of that is from Chinese gacha games lol. Just look at the #1 current top seller on Japan IOS:
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ficker22

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Yet, you never hear Japan collapse stories despite showing pretty clear signs of one. Literally all news about Japan is how the 'Samurai is waking up' & militarising, whereas China cannot win a war before 2030 because they're about to collapse lol

I wonder how much of that is from Chinese gacha games lol. Just look at the #1 current top seller on Japan IOS:
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Huh interesting, Azur Lane has higher revenue than Genshin?
 
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