Pedestrians are reflected on a stock dating board that shows a graph or nikkei fury sharing outside a bag in Tokyo, Japan, on April 14, 2025. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon | Photo credit: Kim Kyung-Hoon
The Japan government warned of uncertainty about the impact of commercial policies in the United States, since tariffs could damage the global economy, but also said in a monthly report on Friday that the national economy was recovering moderately thanks to a solid corporate sector.
Tokyo also said that the downward risks for his economic perspective were growing due to the rates of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and warned about the impact of market volatility.
President Trump promoted the “great progress” in the tariff conversations with Japan on Wednesday, although it was only one of the first rounds of face to face conversations, since he announced a flood of tariffs on the imports of Gobal and the progress and progress and progress. The two nations plan to hold a second meeting at the end of this month.
“The economy is being recovered by the uncertainty, while the uncertainty is emerging from the commercial policies of the United States,” the Japan Cabinet Office said on Friday in its April monthly report, issued on Friday.
The government expects the economy to continue recovering, but the highest tariffs in the United States could affect Japan through trade and market agitation, he said.
“It is necessary to be more vigilant than before the impact on national and international economies,” said a cabinet office official.
Although the feeling of the consumer crossed due to greater inflation, particularly for daily needs such as food, private consumption, which represents more than half of the economy, showed signs of collecting, according to the report.
The Government reduced its vision of corporate feeling for the first time since March 2022, saying that it was “almost flat” after a survey of the Bank of Japan showed that the commercial feeling of the great manufacturers worsened to a minimum of one year in the three months until March.
Posted on April 18, 2025