Q&A: What's next for Japan economy after exiting recession

"Q&A: What's next for Japan economy after exiting recession?"

We will never find out, we will all be dead by then. Incredible news... in the year VAT was upped 3%, the growth was 2,6%... Japanese style growth.

"Q&A: What's next for Japan economy after exiting recession?"

Please get answers/articles from Reuter-Writers have been painting and projecting rosy Abenomics since long.

Over the past two years, Japan’s government has undertaken unprecedented stimulus efforts that have yet to produce convincing results

And these efforts never will produce results. Shuffling savings / dead money between different accounts by not allowing people and corporations to park their money in JGB accounts accomplishes nothing. It might be unprecedented in terms of level of ignorance of how the system actually works and general stupidity, but it is not a stimulus.

What's next for Japan economy after exiting recession

Wait for the revised figures in March/April which always seem to say the opposite.

But the private demand that accounts for about two-thirds of growth remains weak, suggesting the economy will be sluggish this year after flat-lining in 2014. Some estimates put growth at below 0.5 percent for this year and as low as 0.1 percent.

Wow. Trillions and trillions of yen spent behind Abenomics, and this is all there is to show for it. Except of course for the further increase in the nation's already staggering debt.

But there’s not much scope for upside from Japan in the near term.

"Exiting recession" and actually having a vibrant economy are two very different things. And Japan appears to be back in the cycle of stagnation.

Japan's economy grew at a 2.2 percent clip in the last quarter on a sharp recovery in exports. The preliminary data released Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, show the world's third-largest economy emerged from recession in October-December, as many economists had forecast.

Some of us had been trying to tell you this for months.

Expect better figures for Jan - March, as exports rise even further, we read the other day that machinery orders were up 24% that tells you plenty too.

Expect more positive data/news before the end of this quarter too.

Its not a huge amount of increase but imagine if there had been no stimulus , but I know , I know the sky is still falling isn't it boys n girls.

What's next, create more jobs for the country and continue with the process that got you out of the recession.

Its not a huge amount of increase but imagine if there had been no stimulus

StormR -- now there's an understatement if I've ever read one. And, in fairness, maybe you should not have edited what was in the story:

In the fourth quarter, it regained momentum to grow at a 2.2 percent annualized rate. But that was much weaker than the growth of about 4 percent expected by most economists,

So, a "recovery" of half what the economists predicted is what you have been "trying to tell us for months"? Is that right? But you are assuring us that more good news is coming -- right?

Please, you can put lipstick on a pig, and it is still a pig.

more money printing. weaker yen. more theft from savers to pay down government debt. no siginificant immigration reform.

What's next after the recession? The same thing before the recession, help Tohoku and the victims of the nuclear plant disaster!

A friend of mine has just exited Nippon due to the lack of opportunities here. I see the businesses closing down all around my neighborhoodThe Japanese are not spending although the cheap restaurants seem to be full enough. The foreign students I know here, having done 3 or more years of study at a Japanese university are leaving Japan! This is not the start of a boom by any means....

But that was much weaker than the growth of about 4 percent expected by most economists, showing the reluctance of consumers and businesses to spend and invest.

This shows how little economists know about consumers, and businesses. Salaries are stagnant, or growing meagerly, so how can consumers spend more of their strained incomes? The average person sees economic growths as more jobs, and better take-home pay.

Businesses and consumers have "reluctance" because there's no room in their budgets, or no confidence in the economy.

Has Japan come out of its recession? I haven't noticed it. What I have noticed is that the yen has lost value, which means my salary, which is in yen, has also lost value. That puts me and most of Japan still firmly in recession.

Growth of around 2% a year is not really growth if the yen loses more than 2% a year.

The value of the yen has nothing to do with economic growth; if you buy something in Japan you are buying with yen, not with American dollars. In Canada the value of the Cdn. dollar has fallen about 20% against the American dollar in the last couple of years but except for some imported goods prices are not more noticeably expensive.

If growth was 10% per year, the doomsayers would still be saying it was bad because it wasn't 15%, And in fact there is a shortage of labor in Japan.

After more than 20 years of recession, one positive report on the economy it's time to party everyone!!!!