2023 outlook: Japan’s equity market
In a series on how Asian markets might develop in the coming year, AsianInvestor zooms in on Japan and how investors might find value in stocks on the backdrop of a weak yen and a loose monetary policy.
Japan has seen a different scenario than many other developed countries in 2022, with Bank of Japan (BOJ) keeping interest rates low. This policy is aligned with an inflation that has not reached the levels of US and Europe, but the move has accommodated a weakening of the Japanese yen against especially the US dollar.
For a country that suffered from the so-called “lost decade” following the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 1990s and a deflationary period in the ea…
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