Economic Resources for Japan

This page is mostly for myself. Bear with me while I build it, hopefully after about a year it'll begin to actually be helpful ... from now on when I am curious about some stat, and look it up, I'm going to forward the link to this page.

Consumer Price Index information:

• Current Information at statistics bureau (If you scroll down to the bottom of the monthly updates, you'll find some nice excel spreadsheets, but most don't go back past 2001.)
• Same information but farther back (cvs-format spreadsheets only, but goes back to 1970.)

Monetary Base:

• BOJ's Main Time-series Statistics (Monthly)

Comparisons:

• Monetary base: America versus Japan