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This article discusses the efforts of Japan to combat deflation and improve economic growth using monetary policy through the Bank of Japan. The country is in a particularly peculiar position because Japan's public debt is twice the size of its economy, therefore rising interest rates could prove to become a potentially out-of-control situation. There is much debate over which policies the country should take to best correct its economic situation, while some are suggesting that the current policies being used may be successful without causing much inflation at all.

This article talks about how Japan is keeping tariffs on bean imports in order to protect the country's crop rotation system. 

Japans sales for whale meat decline as Iceland steps into the market.

Japan is facing deflation, and it will effect the consumer confidence because of the exchange rate, this will cause a downward slope in the aggregate demand to shift to the left.

The article is about in which countries what type of products are more elastic and inelastic. For example, milk bread has inelastic demand because even though the prices change people will still buy them to survive. Otherwise, meat, chicken has inelastic demand because people might not afford the prices if they change. Especially USA, Japan, Canada has the most inelastic demand for milk, bread and vegetables when you compare them with other nations.

In this article we can read about price and demand elasticity of food, it's written that demand for some product such as milk, bread, fresh fruit and vegetables is not elastic, because these product are part of diet food so that's why the change in price won't affect demand very much. However other it can affect the demand of some other that not suits to diet food very much.

As Japan's economy continues to slow down, the value of the yen has be lagging. Reports say that the value of the yen has dropped 20% compared to the US dollar.