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Is Japan’s recovery already faltering?

The falls in the main balances of Japan’s Economy Watchers Survey in October suggest that the recovery lost a little momentum at the start of the fourth quarter. Nonetheless, growth was probably unsustainably strong in the third quarter and these balances remain at comfortably high levels.

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