According to Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries “Informa- tion on the Exports and Imports of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products” report, Japan’s export of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products amounted to 66.07 billion yen in October 2015, an increase of 17.5 per cent from the same month of the previous year, said the Japan Lumber Journal Friday. As a result, the figure totaled to 602.93 billion yen for January-October of the year, a rise of 23.2 per cent from the same period of the previous year, reaching the same level as the annual export of 611.7 billion yen in 2014.
Japan Housing Starts
Japan’s housing starts in November 2105 were 79,697 units (up 1.7 per cent from the same month in the previous year), sur- passing the last year’s result for the first time in two months, according to Japan Lumber Journal Friday.
The seasonally-adjusted annual rate recovered to 886,000 units (up 2.8% from the previous month). Total housing starts during January-No- vember 2015 were 833,847 units (up 2.2 per cent from the same period of a year-earlier), and total housing starts in 2015 are expected to slightly sur- pass 900,000 units.