The LDP’s poor upper house result compounds uncertainty at a time when Japan’s quiet leadership is critical for regional ...

Despite the trade deal with the United States slashing the tariff rate for Japan to 15 percent, the so-called reciprocal ...

What is clear, however, is that most Japanese foresee a rocky economic road ahead. A 52% majority expect economic conditions to worsen over the next 12 months. In 2010, as the national economy showed ...

But the global economic fallout has begun to take its toll on Japan’s cash-rich banks as well as other sectors of Japanese industry. Japan’s automakers have already been hard-hit.

Leaders of the European Union and Japan have launched an alliance aimed at boosting economic cooperation, defending free ...

By Michael Schiffer The following is a contribution to the Mainichi Shimbun from Michael Schiffer, who served as assistant ...

Still, this is just an opening to reboot the economy, not a guaranteed trend. Japan faces immense demographic challenges. Its population is shrinking by about 0.5% per year and is set to fall from ...

One indication of Japan’s economic weakness is the recent plunge in the yen to its multi-decade low of 155 yen to the dollar. ... Japan’s demographic troubles make its economic challenges worse.

After Japan’s economy expanded 1.9 percent in 2023 – one of its strongest performances in decades – GDP effectively stood still during the first half of this year.

Sometimes, it’s the pressing election issues that no one is talking about that matter most. Especially when the omission is ...

While Japan weathered the COVID-19 pandemic better than most nations, its economy shrank by 4.5 percent in 2020, and the pandemic revealed strategic vulnerabilities in the country’s supply ...

But Japan is steeling itself for a run of economic challenges. Trade wars and slowing exports have weighed heavily on growth.Economists worry that an increase in the national consumption tax ...