The leaders of Japan and the European Union are slated to hold a summit in Tokyo on Wednesday to further strengthen their ...

Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies said Friday that the global economy is facing ...

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

Although Japan’s economy shows signs of returning to normal inflation for the first time in three decades, global headwinds and fiscal fragility pose ongoing challenges.

Footnote(s) ^ According to the ESP Forecast Survey (Japan Center for Economic Research), the average forecast of the real GDP growth rate in fiscal 2021 among economists is plus 3.4%. ^ According to ...

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

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 ...

Indeed, given COVID-19 and the resulting global economic downturn, the increasingly glaring nonexistence of effective trade rules to rein in unfair Chinese trade practices and the World Trade ...

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 ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a critical challenge in the upper house election. A loss would deepen political ...

Japan was once celebrated as an economic powerhouse, to the extent that in the 1970s, American magazines fueled fears — much as they do today with China — of a Japan poised for global dominance.