[Manthink]

TOKYO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Japan unexpectedly slipped into a recession at the end of last year, losing its title as the world's third-biggest economy to Germany and raising doubts about when the central bank would begin to exit its decade-long ultra-loose monetary policy.

On top of that, Its GDP fell an annualised 0.4% in the October-December period after a 3.3% slump in the previous quarter, government data showed on Thursday, confounding market forecasts for a 1.4% increase.



https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/jap...024-02-15/

[Manthink]

Karma can be sudden, unexpected and very targeted...

TOKYO, 7 Feb 2024 (Reuters) - 
Radioactive water has leaked from a device treating contaminated water at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T), opens new tab said on Wednesday, added that the environment outside the plant was unaffected. The utility estimates up to 5.5 metric tons of radioactive water containing 22 billion becquerels of radioactive substances leaked after valves on water treatment equipment were left open during maintenance work.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacif...024-02-07/

[cityhantam]

Must be China's fault lah! 

[teaserteam]

At this rate of recession, it will take many many many more years for China to catch up..

[theold]

It is like Nokia.

[cityhantam]

At this rate of recession,  it will take many many many more years for China to catch up..

https://m.hupu.com/bbs/61308504.html

美国GDP水分到底有多大？

为什么说美国的GDP水分很大？

例如今年前4个月：

美国居民用电4538亿KWH，同比下降5%，占总用电量38%

美国商业用电4226亿KWH，同比下降0.7%，占总用电量35.4%

美国工业用电3167亿KWH，同比下降2.1%，占总用电量26.5%
。
。

[WhatDoYouThink!]

If you see sg being number 1, you shd know it's just a number game

[LittleBirdStreet]

But Nikkei index is all time high

[Manthink]

At this rate of recession,  it will take many many many more years for China to catch up..

30 years ago, pple also say "will take many many more years" for China to catch up with other Asian countries...