Investors in Japan are speculating on the recent rise of 10-year government bond yields to their highest levels since 2008.

I have been visiting Tokyo this week. The U.S. financial turmoil that started last week following the failure of the Lehman Brothers is clearly felt here as well. I have been visiting Tokyo this week.

Shortly after the Lehman Shock of September 2008, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II asked a group of eminent economists, "How could nobody foresee it?" No one had an answer. But eight months later ...

triggered by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. Under these unprecedentedly severe conditions, our industry also faced an extremely difficult situation. Then in 2011, when we ...

It also shows that the value of exports averaged about 25% below its pre-crisis level, even three and a half years after the Lehman Shock. Figure 2 presents the volume of electronic parts and ...