Shinzo Abe's economic report card
Japan has just released its latest growth figures, and the data shows the economy beat forecasts to expand at 0.9% in the three months to March.
The result indicates the world's third largest economy is in recovery mode, after only just pulling itself out of a recession last year. On Wednesday, the government also approved an annual budget of about $900bn. That's all part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's moves to stimulate the economy and end 20 years of deflation.
It's mostly all good news, but as Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo, there are still some red flags to watch out for.
16 May 2013
- From the section Business