The Bank of Japan released the "Regional Economic Report", which summarizes the current state of the national economy every three months, and raised its economic assessment for "China" among the nine regions.



The eight regions of ▽Hokkaido, ▽Tohoku, ▽Hokuriku, ▽Kanto-Koshinetsu, ▽Tokai, ▽Kinki, ▽Shikoku, and ▽Kyushu/Okinawa remained unchanged from the previous survey.