The lecture will focus on recent Japan's economic performance and the outlook after the 2020 Tokyo Olymipic Game, Abenomics (three arrows) and the performance, as well as massivie monetary easing conducted by the Bank of Japan under the Abenomics. Japan's long-standing deflation and its features will be also touched upon.
Global economic issues such as the US economic performance and new policies under Mr. Trump, Brexit and EU negotiations, euro area and economic integratoin isseus, major exchange rates )ncluding the US dollar, the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, and euro) will be pointed out.