The leaders of Japan s major business organizations on Jan. 1 expressed their resolve to address pressing challenges facing the country to support growth in 2022, ranging from digitalization and decarbonization to regional revitalization and deregulation.
The Japanese government upgrades its growth forecast for the domestic economy in fiscal 2022 to a real 3.2 percent from the previously estimated 2.2 percent, expecting the pace of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic-caused slump to pick up following a weaker-than-anticipated improvement in the current year.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made the comment in a parliamentary session after a newspaper report that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism had been "rewriting" data received from about 12,000 select companies since 2013.