OECD Economic Survey of Japan

25/09/2009 - The OECD’s latest economic survey of Japan, to be published on Wednesday 30 September 2009, looks at the challenges facing the country as it begins to recover from the most severe recession in decades.

The survey will be available to journalists in English on the OECD's password-protected website at 11.00  a.m. Paris time (18.00 Tokyo time; 09.00 GMT) for immediate release.

A news conference presented by OECD economist Randall Jones will be held at 10.30 a.m. the same day at the Japan National Press Club, Tokyo. For further details about the event, journalists are invited to contact Noriko Mimura at the OECD’s Tokyo Centre (noriko.mimura@oecd.org; tel.+81.3.5532.0026).

A Policy Brief with the main conclusions will be freely accessible in pdf format (in English and  French) on the OECD’s web site at www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/japan. You are invited to include this internet link in reports on the survey.

Journalists will be allowed advance access to the electronic version of the publication, by e-mail and under embargo, the day before release.

The study will be sent by e-mail on request only. In asking to receive the survey under embargo, journalists undertake to respect OECD’s embargo procedures. Requests to receive the survey by e-mail under embargo or to obtain a password to access the website should be sent by e-mail to Bochra Kriout in the OECD’s media division.