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[Japanese Double Dip] Fear of'Double Dip' hitting Japan in the rush of'Second Emergency'...국제/일본 2021. 3. 21. 16:56
From the beginning of the New Year 2021, fear of a'double dip' hit the Japanese economy. In the third quarter of last year, it has been only two quarters since it has barely escaped from the economic downturn caused by the economic shock caused by the Corona 19 incident. Japan's Cabinet Yoshihide Suga entered into force a second emergency this month, failing to calm the recurrence of Corona 19, which continued from the fall of last year. The risk of an economic reshrinkage has increased.
On the afternoon of the 7th, Prime Minister Suga entered into force an emergency for one month from the 8th of this month to the 7th of the following month, targeting four areas in the metropolitan area, including Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama, where about half of Japan's total population resides. . It has been 9 months since April 7 last year.
The number of confirmed cases in Tokyo, the capital city of Japan's largest corona19 spread, which had been around 1,000 a day since November of last year, exceeded 1,500 on the 6th of this month, and the next day, when it exceeded 2,000, it was decided that it could not withstand any more. However, as the spread of Corona 19 in Japan is not under national control, the emergency situation limited to the metropolitan area is showing signs of expanding nationwide within a week of entry into force.Japanese economic experts are raising concerns over the possibility of a'double dip' becoming a reality in the emergency that re-entered after nine months. On the 8th, the Nippon Geizai Shimbun (Nikkei) predicted that Japan's real gross domestic product (GDP) could decrease by 2.4% compared to the previous quarter in the first quarter of this year.
This is the result of the newspaper's counting of 10 economists at major economic research institutes and securities companies in Japan, and it was lowered from the 1.5% increase expected at the time of the same survey conducted at the end of last year.
If the forecast is realized, Japan's economic growth rate becomes negative again in two quarters. Japan's economy continued its ``reverse growth'' march for four quarters from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the second quarter of last year and fell into recession.In the fourth quarter of 2019, the Japanese economy turned negative after five quarters. This is because exports fell sharply due to trade disputes between the US and China, and domestic consumption also turned to a downward trend due to an increase in consumption tax. Corona 19 pendemic hit here. As the infectious disease spread and the emergency took effect in April, Japan's GDP in the second quarter of 2020 fell to 28.8% year-on-year (confirmed, -7.9% compared to the previous quarter) in the second quarter of 2020. At that time, the figures were evaluated as'the worst figure since 1980 for statistical comparison,' and some say'the worst since 1955, just after World War II'.
However, with the end of the emergency, GDP in the third quarter of last year rebounded to 22.9% year-on-year on an annual basis, and is likely to record a positive growth of 3.6% (estimated) in the fourth quarter.'국제 > 일본' 카테고리의 다른 글