Japan's Liberal Democratic Party ruling coalition may lose its majority in the upper house in an election on Sunday, which ...

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Japan has worked hard to attract foreigners to boost its sluggish economy but now the perception there are too many has ...

A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to ...

Japan faces a stark choice these days: Either open up to gaijins—foreigners—or face economic collapse. There was a time Japan was the world’s second largest economy, on track to bypass the ...

Japan will find out who is replacing Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Sept. 29, when the ruling party chooses a new leader, with vaccine minister Taro Kono reckoned to be the frontrunner in the race.

The stronger-than-expected data confirmed that the Japanese economy remains on a mild growth path, supporting expectations that the Bank of Japan will raise the policy rate again later this year ...

Japan’s economic rebound from the pandemic-induced contraction has been modest and uneven. Real GDP has grown in fits and starts since the sharp 2020 collapse, and as of Q1 2025, it remains just ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government on Thursday maintained a cautious outlook for the economy in part as policymakers kept a wary eye on U.S. President Donald Trump's policies and their potential ...

Japan’s new economic security policy has been guided by the government’s preoccupation with past success in the field of industrial policy. METI is the successor to the Ministry of International Trade ...

Investment opportunity: international asset management companies poised to unlock Japan’s ‘economic renaissance’ Japanese households are sitting on trillions of dollars in uninvested cash.