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Ota Says Strong Corporate Sector Keeping Japan Economy Afloat (Bloomberg.com) July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Japan has managed to avoid a recession because the health of the nation's companies has improved from the decade after the asset bubble burst in the early 1990s, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Hiroko Ota said. Japan's Stock Futures Rise After ECB Signals End of Rate Hikes (Bloomberg.com) July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's stock futures rose after the European Central Bank suggested it may not raise interest rates further, easing concern Japanese exports will slow.

DAILY REPORTS

Jul 04 Pension investments see 5 tril. yen loss in FY07 (Yomiuri) Jul 04 Overseas bond sellers turn focus to Japan (International Herald Tribune) Jul 04 OECD: Japan Wasting Its Female Labor Power (Forbes) Jul 03 Japanese land prices up for third year in 2007 (MarketWatch) Jul 03 Revised temp staff law to ban dispatches of day laborers (Asahi) Jul 03 Japan Should Create 10 Trillion Yen Fund, LDP Says (Bloomberg) Jun 30 Govt to pilot energy efficiency emissions trading system (Yomiuri) Jun 30 Japan grants tax exemptions (FT.com) Jun 28 Watch out Japanese economy - it tells you what US economy and the rest of the world will face in the (Indian Daily) Jun 27 Japan's May jobless rate at 4.0%, unchanged from April (Kyodo) Jun 27 Buy Japan on Inflation? (Part II) (Morgan Stanley) Jun 26 Japan wants it both ways on tax (FT.com) Jun 26 China passes Japan as No. 2 crude importer in May (Globe & Mail) Jun 25 Japan's Corporate-Service Price Inflation Quickens (Bloomberg) Jun 24 Timing of consumption tax hike depends on economic conditions: Ota (Kyodo) Jun 23 William Pesek: Bank of Japan is fake hawk in Fed-European fight (APP.com) Jun 22 Japan: recovery or a false dawn? (Times Online) Jun 22 Japan: Land of the Falling Buyout Valuation (Wall Street Journal) Jun 22 Japan's banks look abroad after years of bad loans (FT.com) Jun 22 Japan's business bosses say expansion already over (AFP) Jun 21 Japan: Mounting Recession Risk: June Tankan Preview (Morgan Stanley) Jun 19 Japan survey underlines growth concerns (Reuters) Jun 19 Deflation generation fears price rises (Yomiuri) Jun 18 Japan's average regular gasoline price slides to 172.3 yen (Kyodo) Jun 18 Hong Kong ranks as most open market, Japan ranks 13th: WEF (Kyodo) Jun 18 Japanese Notes Advance on Speculation BOJ to Keep Rates on Hold (Bloomberg) Jun 18 Japanese department store sales drop 2.7% in May (Kyodo) Jun 18 Deflation generation fears price rises (Yomiuri) Jun 17 Yen offers little allure as risk appetite sharpens (FT.com) Jun 16 Japanese household assets down 3.6% in FY 2007 (Kyodo) Jun 11 Japanese Lessons for China’s Currency (Welt Online) Jun 11 Japan's economy surges ahead in first quarter (AFP) Jun 11 Emulate Japan to cope with oil shocks (Asia Times) Jun 10 Fewer Japanese firms 'collapse' (BBC) Jun 09 Japan's money supply up 2.0% in May (Kyodo) Jun 07 Japan financials' subprime losses $8 bln: regulator (Reuters) Jun 06 May foreign reserves dip below $1 tril. on U.S. Treasury setbacks (Kyodo) Jun 04 Japan not immune to food crisis (Yomiuri) Jun 03 Japan slowdown unavoidable, says BOJ nominee Ikeo (Reuters) Jun 03 Japan: US$1.5 Trillion GPIF Reform and Outflows from Japan (Morgan Stanley) Jun 02 Japan continues climb out of lost decade (guardian.co.uk) Jun 02 April wages rise 0.6% to 281,246 yen, 4th straight monthly rise (Kyodo) May 31 Japan recession a risk, credit crisis drags on-Roach (Reuters) May 31 Buy Japan on Inflation? (Morgan Stanley) May 30 Japan's Shrinking Workforce (Forbes) May 30 Japanese household spending falls 2.7% in April on year (Kyodo) May 30 Japan's industrial output down 0.3% in April on month (Kyodo) May 29 Japan's future in 8 regional blocs / Draft guidelines offer local govts more say on development plan (Yomiuri) May 29 Japan files WTO complaint against EU for 1st time (Kyodo) May 27 Hikes in food product prices continuing to hit households in Japan (Kyodo)