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Firms pulling in their horns

Corporate investment has been a key driver of domestic demand in Japan recently, underpinned by healthy profits and the growing capacity constraints that resulted from a prolonged period of above-trend growth. But recent evidence suggests that firms are scaling back their ambitions as capacity has stopped tightening.

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