In addition, in the Bank's October 2017 Regional Economic Report, all nine regions across the country showed  2  positive economic assessments, using phrases such as moderate recovery and expansion. Of the nine regions, the Tokai region has been the frontrunner of economic expansion.
In the latest Regional Economic Report, the Bank's Nagoya Branch revised its economic assessment of the Tokai region upward to one stating that the economy "has been expanding" from the previous one stating that it "has been expanding moderately." The Tokai region is the only region that assesses the economy as having been expanding.