## Japan 2018 Staff Report

_IMF Staff Country Reports, November 27, 2018_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: November 27, 2018
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484386729.002

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### Main findings
- The rapid aging and shrinking of Japan’s population will dominate economic policy making in coming decades.
- Six years of Abenomics have yielded some important results.
- Achieving sustained high growth and durable reflation, while also tackling debt sustainability and a shifting global economic landscape, will require strengthened policies.

### Policy challenges and priorities
- Demographics: rapid aging and population shrinkage as the central long-term constraint on policy.
- Reflation and growth: build on Abenomics’ achievements to reach sustained high growth and durable reflation.
- Fiscal sustainability: address debt sustainability amid demographic and global shifts.
- Global environment: adapt policy to a shifting global economic landscape.

### Subjects and keywords (as listed)
- Subjects: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Banking, Consumption taxes, Crime, Inflation, Labor, Population and demographics, Prices, Taxes
- Keywords: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Asia and Pacific, BoJ's target, Consumption taxes, CR, Global, government bond bond yield, guide inflation expectation, headline CPI inflation, Inflation, ISCR, Japan's Cabinet Office, money market rate, price pressure

### Publication metadata and statistics
- Publication title: Japan: 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Japan
- Date: November 27, 2018
- Pages: 93
- Volume: 2018
- Issue: 333
- Series: Country Report No. 2018/333
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484386729.002
- Stock No: 1JPNEA2018001
- ISBN: 9781484386729
- ISSN: 1934-7685
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*International Monetary Fund. Japan: 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Japan (November 27, 2018).*

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