Country Report:

Asian bad debt Bank of Japan bonds boost capital China companies construction Consumer prices corporate credit unions current-account surplus deregulation despite Diet dollar domestic demand economic Economist Intelligence Unit election exchange rate Exports fob fall financial institutions fiscal forecast Foreign trade Frontier Party funds GDP growth House of Councillors Housing starts industry interest rates J-curve effects Jan-Dec Jan-Dec Jan-Mar Kobe earthquake land prices long-term manufacturing Masayoshi Takemura ment minister months Murayama n/a n/a n/a non-performing loans official organisations output overseas plans political Private consumption public investment Qtr 4 Qtr quarter of 1995 retail rise Ryutaro Hashimoto SDPJ seasonally adjusted sector Shinshinto Shinto Sakigake Source South Korea stimulus package Taiwan Tokyo Tomiichi Murayama Total Incl unemployment vehicles wages World trade year-earlier period year-on-year yen's appreciation Yohei Kono