Japan’s deflationary era has completely ended.” Haruhiko Kuroda, former Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), analyzed in a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has relentlessly pushed for increased military spending since taking office, in denial of Japan's economic woes. By doing so, the Japanese leader is not only ...

Japan’s prime minister in a tough spot going into her meeting with President Donald Trump, Desmond Lachman writes in a guest ...

Japan‘s economy contracted at a 1.8% annualized rate in the third quarter of 2025, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have caught up with the island nation’s exports. Trump reached a trade deal with ...

Sitting in the Oval Office this week, Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi gave a master class in grinning and bearing a terrible ...

Preliminary data from the nation’s largest labor union group showed that 1,100 members secured wage increases of 5.26% on ...

Nicholas Smith of CLSA discusses why he is confident the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates in April, how higher energy ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new economic revitalisation minister, Minoru Kiuchi, said on Tuesday a weak yen has benefits to the economy and its demerits could be addressed by swiftly compiling a package ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's economy expanded at an anemic 0.2% annual pace in the last quarter, the government reported Monday, with growth for all of 2025 at just 1.1%. Private consumption rose at a 0.4% ...

For years, India has ranked as the world’s fifth-largest economy, behind the US, China, Germany and Japan. Now it’s closing in on Japan, helped by its 1.4 billion-strong, relatively young population ...

TOKYO — Japan’s economy contracted at an annual pace of 2.3% in the July-September period, the government reported Monday, as exports suffered from the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs ...