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Japanese Yen’s bumpy ride holds promise and danger – economy

http://www.euronews.com/ The Japanese Yen has gone through the 100 to the dollar mark for the first time since April 2009, and is now at a four-year low [...]

Japanese girl band pays homage to kamikaze currency policies …

Japanese girl band pays homage to kamikaze currency policies: deflation is our enemy. Girl group bases style on Nikkei ups and downs. Machikado Keiki Japan (roughly translated as Economic Conditions on the Streets of … [...]

Week in FX Asia – USD/JPY Appreciates to 98 as Japanese …

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in September after promising an end to deflation. He set a very aggressive target of 2% in 2 years. Abe was a vocal critic of the Bank of Japan, whose governor was up for [...]

The Skeptical Speculator: BoJ sees end to Japan's deflation, US …

Japan reported on Friday that its consumer prices excluding fresh food fell 0.5 percent in March from the previous year, signalling continued deflation . There was no immediate reaction from the Bank of Japan . Its latest … [...]

Bank Of Japan Sets Deflation Turnaround Target Date – House Price …

http://www.nytimes.c…ss&emc=rss&_r=0 ' HONG KONG — Deflation remains firmly entrenched in Japan , figures showed Friday, as the [...]

New Bank Of Japan Leader Initiates Aggressive Plan To End …

It has been hardly four months since Japan elected Shinzo Abe as prime minister, yet market participants have clearly placed their bets behind Mr. Abe's plans to resuscitate Japan's economy from the grip of deflation and slow … [...]

Bank of Japan Goes "All-in" on Deflation Battle – CME Group

With the Bank of Japan's announcement last week it would ramp up its deflation -fighting efforts, including doubling its monetary base through debt purchases, the central bank signaled it is “all-in” on its battle to fight deflation … [...]

Soros calls Japan's aggressive stimulus plan 'dangerous' — RT …

Adopting a plan against deflation was the first thing the bank's newly appointed Governor Haruhiko Kuroda did in his new post. The BoJ said on Thursday that it hopes the new monetary policy will “lead Japan's economy to … [...]

Japan launches campaign against deflation : Voice of Russia

On Thursday, the Bank of Japan announced a campaign against deflation that has been going on in the country for the past fifteen [...]

Bank of Japan $520bn kickstart to economy — RT Business

The Bank of Japan shocked markets on Thursday when it announced an aggressive stimulus plan to combat over 20 years of deflation , declaring a 'new phase of monetary easing both in terms of quantity and [...]