Back & Forward - And they thought the BOJ was confusing!

Apparently, government statistics are confusing in general, if not downright inaccurate. To address this problem, the Cabinet Office has set up a Commission on Statistics, which has been tasked with resolving the problem of overlaps and contradictions in officially published figures. Japan currently reports 55 basic statistics that are compiled by seven different government ministries, if you trust that number.

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