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The Lost Decades are a lengthy period of economic stagnation in Japan precipitated by the asset price bubble's collapse beginning in 1990. The singular term Lost Decade (失われた10年, Ushinawareta Jūnen) originally referred to the 1990s, [1] but the 2000s (Lost 20 Years, 失われた20年) [2] and the 2010s (Lost 30 Years, 失われた30年) [3] [4] [5] have been included by commentators ...
The inheritance tax is very high in Japan, reported to be 75% of the market price for over 500 million yen until 1988, and it is still 70% of the market price for over 2 billion yen. [33] Yet the appraisal of land for tax purposes used to be about one-half of the market value and the debt was considered at face value during the bubble period.
US$1.1 billion: Meidi-Ya: 36: Renichi Takenaka: US$1.1 billion: Takenaka Corporation: 37: Ryusuke Kimura: US$1.1 billion: 38: Otani family: US$1 billion: 39: Toyoda family: US$1 billion: Toyota Motor Corporation: 40: Junichi Murata: US$1 billion: Murata Machinery
Japan Inc.’s solid third-quarter corporate earnings have prompted Bank of America equity strategists to upgrade their 2024 year-end forecasts for the Nikkei 225 to 41,000 from 38,500.
However, the 1965 budget issued 259 billion yen in deficit-covering bonds, and the next year's budget in 1966 allotted 730 billion yen in construction bonds. [25] By 1990, the government did not issue a national bond due to the Japanese asset price bubble. Bonds were issued again in 1994, and have been issued every year since.
SoftBank reported a 789 billion yen ($5.2 billion) net loss for the three months to end-September, compared with a 3.01 trillion yen profit a year earlier when it sold down a large portion of its ...
Yahoo Finance Live’s Jared Blikre discusses the Japanese yen reaching its weakest value versus the U.S. dollar since 1998.
1978: The yen was strengthened to 180 per dollar, resulting in the first endaka. 1979–1984: yen remained between 200–250 per dollar. 1985: The Plaza Accord revalued the yen from 250 to 160 per dollar. 1986–1988: yen further strengthened to 120 per dollar, resulting in the second endaka. 1989–1995: yen fluctuated between 100 and 160 per ...