景気９地域、上方修正　先行き「下振れ注意」―財務省

　財務省は２５日、全国財務局長会議を開き、全国を１１地域に分けて直近３カ月の景気動向について点検した経済情勢報告をまとめた。消費や生産に持ち直しの動きがあるとして、東北、沖縄を除く９地域の景気判断を上方修正した。先行きについては、新型コロナウイルスの変異株「オミクロン株」の拡大や、原材料価格の動向などを念頭に「下振れリスクに十分注意する必要がある」と指摘した。
　全国の景気の総括判断は「緩やかに持ち直している」とし、２０２０年１０月以来、５四半期ぶりに上方修正した。（2022/01/25-13:05）

The Ministry of Finance in a quarterly report released Tuesday revised up its economic assessments for nine of Japan's 11 regions on the back of pickups in consumption and production.
   The nine regions are Hokkaido, Kanto, Hokuriku, Tokai, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu and Fukuoka. The assessment was left unchanged for Tohoku and lowered for Okinawa.
   The report was compiled at the day's meeting held among heads of the ministry's local finance bureaus to check regional economic conditions in the past three months.
   The ministry upgraded its overall economic assessment for the country for the first time in five quarters. The Japanese economy is picking up gradually, it said.
   As to the economic outlook, the MOF said that "close attention should be paid to the downside risk" amid concerns over the spread of the highly infectious omicron variant of the novel coronavirus and movements of materials prices.