Economy of Japan (Selected Data Bases)

Japan's bubble and
post-bubble economies
Charts and graphs

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Trade data

Macroeconomic data

US macroeconomic data

Japan-US comparative data

Variable definitions for selected Japanese data bases

Japanese Trade Data

Bank of Japan
- Foreign Exchange Rates -- Yen/Dollar
  - Annual Monthly Averages (1973-1999).
  - End-of-the-month Nominal Spot Rate (1973 -1981).
- Current Account Balances
  - Japanese Merchandise Trade with trend lines (1985-2001).
  - Japanese netexports and interest income (1985-2001).
Bank of Japan and Office of the Prime Minister
- Real net exports and exchange rates (1973-1999)
Food and Agricultural Organization
- Grain exports to Japan (1980-1998).
Ministry of Finance
- Export and import flows by country (January 2001)
  - Country comparison (Asia)
  - Net surplus/deficit regional comparison.
World Trade Organization
- Japanese trade with North America, Asia, and China (1963-1999)
  - Exports.
  - Imports.
- Japanese trade by industrial product (1999)
  - Exports.
  - Imports.
- Japnese export/import sector comparison (1999)

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Japan's macroeconomic data

Bank of Japan
- Corporate debt -- year on year percent changes.
  - Construction and real estate (1970-2000).
  - Manufacturing (1970-2000).
  - Manufacturing (1990-2000).
- Financial institutions.
  - Bank debentures (1964-1999).
  - Deposit Money Banks (1970-1999) -- Annual averages of monthly balances.
    - All assets (cumulative) -- all major categories.
    - All assets less private sector lending -- line graph.
    - All liabilities -- line graph.
    - Liabilities as a proportion of fixed deposits.
    - Liabilities not including fixed deposits -- line graph.
  - Household savings (1990-1999) -- transferrable and time deposits.
  - New housing loans (1990-1999).
  - Overseas stock (1970-1999).
  - Postal savings (1991-1999).
  - Private sector lending (1990-1999).
- Government bonds.
  - Money bank deposits (1971-1999).
- Interest rates (Bank of Japan)
  - Discount rates (1981-1996)
  - Overnight call rates (1970-2001)
- Money bank deposits(1971-1999) -- domestic banks only.
  - Foreign assets.
  - Private sector credit.
- Price data.
  - Manufactured goods (1990-2001).
    - Domestic and foreign imput prices.
    - Domestic and foreign output prices.
    - Output-input price ratio -- all sectors.
    - Ouputt-input price ratio -- domestic and foreign goods comparison.
  - Wholesale price index (1960-2000) -- all industries.
  - Wholesale price index and year-on-year variation (1960-2000).
- Tax base (December 2000) -- pie chart.
- Tokyo stock exchange
  - Nikkei Index (January 1970 c February 2001).
  - 1st tier trade volume (1972-2000).
Bank of Japan and Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, and Posts and Telecommunications.
- Urban Land Price Index (All Uses) vs General Wholesale Price Index
Office of the Prime Minister
- Real growth (1989-2000) Seasonally adjusted quarterly data.
- Real growth (1955-1999).
- Real non-residential private investment (1955-1999).
Financial Supervisory Agency (Ministry of Finance)
- All credit by financial sector (September 2000).
- Impaired credit by type of banking institution (September 2000).
- Impaired credit by type of banking institution -- proportion of total credit(September 2000).
- Two measures of bad debt loss (1992-2000).
Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, and Posts and Telecommunication, Statistics Bureau and Statistics Center
- More Price data.
  - Consumer price index (1984-1999).
  - Consumer, wholesale, commercial land price indices (1984-1999) -- percent variation.
  - Consumer, wholesale, commercial land, and stock price indices (1984-1999) -- a four-way comparison.
  - Urban land price Index (1957-1997) -- all uses.
  - Urban land price index (1957-1997) -- commercial and industrial use comparison.
- Ratio of savings to disposable income (1985-1998).
Moody's Rating Service (Source: by country bank ratings -- rating list)
- Japanese bank ratings (May 1, 2001).

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US macroeconomic data

Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis
- GDP deflator and domestic inflation (1959-1999).
- National income and expenditure.
  - Defense and non-defense spending (1959-1999).
  - Federal government deficit (1960-1979) -- Pre-Reagan.
  - Federal government net-balances (1960-2000).
- Net overseas investment (1949-2000).
  - Flows.
  - Stock.
- Growth
  - Real gross domestic product (1955-1999).
  - Real gross domestic product (1989-1999) -- quarterly changes.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Prime rate and frequency of intervention (1951-2001).
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED)
- Trade weighted exchange rate (1973-2000) -- broad.

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Japan-US comparative data

Bank of Japan and New York Stock Exchange
- Nikkei and NYSE Composite Index (1980-1989).
World Bank
- Gross national income per capita (1995-1999).

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English and Japanese variable definitions
and links for selected Japanese data bases
Useful to those working in non-Japanese operating systems with EXCEL spread sheets.

Bank of Japan
- Corporate bonds.
- Financial Institutions.
  - Historical Stock Data.
  - Historical Flow Data.
- Foreign Exchange Rates (Interbank).
- Overseas stock.
- Monetary Survey.
- Monthly current and capital account balances.
- Short term financial market.
  - Interest rates.
  - Outstanding balances (incomplete).
- Statement of Receipts and Payments of Treasury Accounts (incomplete).
- Wholesale prices.
Office of the Prime Minister and Economic and Social Research Institute
- Survey of national accounts (historical data)

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