The jobless rate could fall below 4 percent in March or April, and that could prompt views that growing employment will further push up prices.

Given the domestic demand-led recovery, I would expect Japan to increase imports from China and other Asian economies this year, in a move to share the role with the United States as a major driving force in the world economy.

Our turnover rate as of May of this year was about 70 percent, which is about 30 percent below the industry standard. We have now gotten our turnover rate down to 40 percent and we feel pretty comfortable it is going to go lower.

This should cause the employment rate to increase and the unemployment rate to decrease for the month of April.

After a hot March comes April!

The fishing season will now go from April to March.