TOKYO -- Japan's Cabinet Office will tentatively recognize that the country's most recent economic expansion phase, which started in December 2012, came to an end in October 2018, Nikkei has learned, in a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Economy
Japan's economic expansion ended in 2018 in setback for Abenomics
Recovery lasted from December 2012 to October 2018, just missing longest boom
