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The economic history of Japan is one of the most studied. Major milestones in modern Japan's economic progress include: The foundation of the Tokugawa shogunate based in Edo (in 1603), initiating a period of internal economic development. The Meiji Restoration (in 1868) leading to Japan becoming the first non-European modern world power.
Records show that economics was taught at the university as early as in 1878. The Faculty of Economics was established in 1919, [1] following the separation of the Department of Economics, created in 1908 from the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Law, and the Department of Commerce, established in 1909.
Monetary policy pertains to the regulation, availability, and cost of credit, while Fiscal policy deals with government expenditures, taxes, and debt. Through management of these areas, the Ministry of Finance regulated the allocation of resources in the economy, affected the distribution of income and wealth among the citizenry, stabilized the level of economic activities, and promoted ...
In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文 時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, [1] [2] [3] during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. [4]
During the global economic recession, Japan suffered a 0.7% decline in real GDP in 2008 followed by a severe 5.2% decline in 2009. In contrast, the data for world real GDP growth was a 3.1% increase in 2008 followed by a 0.7% decline in 2009. [11]
The Japanese asset price bubble (バブル景気, baburu keiki, lit. ' bubble economy ') was an economic bubble in Japan from 1986 to 1991 in which real estate and stock market prices were greatly inflated. [1] In early 1992, this price bubble burst and Japan's economy stagnated.
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 period of rapid economic growth between 1955 and 1961 paved the way for the Golden Sixties, the second decade that is generally associated with the Japanese economic miracle. In 1965, Japan's nominal GDP was estimated at just over $91 billion. Fifteen years later, in 1980, the nominal GDP had soared to a record $1.065 trillion. [citation ...