Japan's Tankan Survey

Rank: 4th.

What Is It: A widely respected report on business confidence in Japan.

News Release on Internet: www.boj.or.jp/en/stat/tk/tk.htm

Home Web Address: www.boj.or.jp/en/index.htm

Release Time: 8:50 A.M. (local time); results are published at the start of April, July, and October, and in mid-December.

Frequency: Quarterly.

Source: Bank of Japan.

Revisions: Statistical corrections are rare. Revisions merely reflect changes in confidence and plans from one quarter to the next.

Aside from the U.S., Japan has arguably the most extensive collection of economic indicators in the world, much of it in English and freely available on the Web. Perhaps that's to be expected from the second-largest economy (after the United States). ...

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