Japanese manufacturing show signs of weak recovery, in January, and factory production from a month ago rose 1%.
, said on Thursday that Japan's economy, trade and industry figures, for the second consecutive months growth, it is suggested that the output of the recession has "bottoming out." However, in the January issue of the output growth is lower than economists expected to grow 1.5%. Seasonal variation adjustment, production year-on-year growth of 2.5%.
The ministry of health lists the vehicle shipments rose, iron, steel and electronic equipment, and semiconductor and auto parts, from behind the growth of the last month of the main factors. But production than the same period last year dropped 5.1%.
Prime minister Shinzo Abe (Shinzo Abe) in late December office vowed to pull Japan out of the recession has strong government spending, more bold loose monetary policy. On Tuesday, parliamentary approval, this means that the rest of the March 31 this year the end of the $142 billion supplementary budget, in order to help pay for more public works and other stimulus spending.
Shinzo Abe (Thursday) nomination Haruhiko Kuroda (Haruhiko Kuroda), is now responsible for the Asian development bank and Abe's policy is to say to want to backup to replace the bank, the bank of Japan governor BaiChuan FangMing (Masaaki Shirakawa) March 19 when he step down.
So far, the economy has shown signs of recovery, and weak in largely thanks to strong overseas demand along with the global economy rebound and the yen weakened, Japan in overseas markets more price competitiveness export.
Retail spending fell by 1.1%, compared to the same period last year in January, although the high cost of food and beverage, report to the department.
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