Japanese voters participated in a closely contested upper house election that could create political upheaval. Prime Minister ...

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

Japan's upper house election sees Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition on shaky ground amid voter discontent over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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.

Japan’s economy shrunk in the first three months of the year, largely because of rising Covid case numbers, ... Still, growth in the coming months will face some tough challenges.

Debt, old age, stagnation: Japan's economy faces huge challenges. by Daniel Shane @CNNMoney October 20, 2017: 1:57 AM ET . Toshiba: Fall of a Japanese icon.