What can we expect from Japan in 2018?

But we believe that strong global demand, improving domestic growth and political stability will remain supportive of Japanese companies' multi-year growth trajectory.  Japan's TOPIX index has been the best-performing developed market since Abenomics began in 2012, and with at least 10% earnings growth forecast for 2018, this strong performance trend looks set to continue. The robust and improving global economic backdrop could be particularly beneficial for the earnings of Japanese exporters; we expect strong global demand to potentially be the single largest driver of earnings growt...