Country Report:

Apr May Jun Asia Aug Sep Oct Bank of Japan bn unless otherwise budget cabinet China companies Consumer prices contraction corporate Country Commerce Country Reports Current-account balance domestic demand E-mail Economist lntelligence Unit end-period exchange rate exports faction fiscal foreign gross domestic product Hakuo Yanagisawa Hashimoto Heizo Takenaka House of Councillors imports increase industries Japanese Jul Aug Sep Jun Jul Aug Junichiro Koizumi Komeito LDP's lndustrial production lnternet lslands Machinery orders Makiko Tanaka manufacturing Masajuro Shiokawa Masaru Hayami merchandise trade Ministry of Finance Mori n/a n/a NPLs Oct Nov Dec outlook political prime minister Private consumption privatisation Qtr 2 Qtr quarter on quarter real GDP reform retail Ryutaro Hashimoto seasonally adjusted sector Sep Oct Nov slowdown Source South Korea Tokyo Trade balance trade surplus unemployment unless otherwise indicated updates upper house election Yoshiro Mori