News

What Was Japan’s Lost Decade? Between 1991 and 2001, Japan’s once red-hot economy was in trouble. An asset bubble had formed in both its housing and stock ...
The Lost Decade refers to a period of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s.
Japan's Lost Decade might thus be more aptly called its "Lost Decades." The sharp economic slowdown of the early 1990s culminated in a recession in 1998-99, only to be followed by another near ...
Putting Japan's 'Lost Decade' In Perspective Opponents of President Obama's plan to use government spending to stimulate the U.S. economy cite the failure of a similar strategy by Japan in the ...
Japan’s lost decade can be divided into three sections: the 1991-93 recession, the temporary recovery of 1994-96, and the deep recession of 1997-99. Each episode offers important lessons.
Japan's Lost Decade is a cautionary tale about the L-shaped recession : The Indicator from Planet Money Not all recessions are created equal. Some look like Vs, while others look like Ks.
Japan's lost decade(s) is the period responsible for Japan’s poor economic state. It's also a classic study in what bubbles can do to an economy.
Japan's painful hangover from its own version of the global financial crisis is a grim lesson for those who hope for a quick recovery from the present one.
Is Japan’s “Lost Decade” (more like two decades now) just a statistical artifact caused by an aging workforce? It seems a little too simple. Is the date range cherry picked?
Observers of the world economy call the 1990s in Japan the Lost Decade. Following what the Washington Post would describe as “an orgy of easy credit and speculation” at the end of the 1980s ...
Japan's lost decade didn't just hurt government balance sheets; it brought long-lasting damage to the Japanese people.
As the United States enters a recession amid growing signs of excess capacity after a surge of investment spending, inevitable comparisons arise with Japan’s 1989–1990 collapse and the ...