TITLE

Japan officially in recession

AUTHOR(S)

Kobe, Gerry

PUB. DATE

July 1998

SOURCE

Automotive Industries;Jul98, Vol. 178 Issue 7, p25

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the declaration by Japan's Economic Planning Agency the that country's economic is in recession. Ineffectiveness of the government's $116 billion economic stimulus package; Identification of strategies used by the government of Japan and the United States to increase the yen; Reference to the pressure which China is receiving to compete against Japanese goods; Implications of such pressures.

ACCESSION #

1044541

Tags: JAPAN -- Economic conditions;  ECONOMICS

 

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