Political uncertainty after Japan's election shock risks slowing economic reforms, pushing up government spending and even holding up the Bank of Japan's exit from its outlier monetary policy ...

Japan’s new economic stimulus package will feature cash handouts to help low-income households deal with inflation and extra funding for disaster preparedness, according to public broadcaster NHK.

Japan's government will propose a $65 billion plan to boost its chip industry with subsidies and other financial assistance over a period of "multiple years", a draft seen on Monday by Reuters showed.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy is expected to have slowed sharply in the third quarter hurt by sluggish consumption and ...

Akira Amari had championed funneling large sums of public money into building up the country’s semiconductor capacity.

The Bank of Japan decided to keep its policy interest rate steady at 0.25%, according to an official statement on Thursday. The Japanese economy is likely to keep growing at a pace above its ...

The specter of a Donald Trump 2.0 presidency launching ever-bigger trade wars is having a chilling effect of business investment across Japan. Voters’ rebuke of the LDP is its own economic ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's economic advisory panel on Wednesday called on the government, management and labour unions to swiftly start talks on raising minimum wages, a key Ishiba ...

Political uncertainty after Japan's election shock risks slowing economic reforms, pushing up government spending and even holding up the Bank of Japan's exit from its outlier monetary policy, ...

Post-war Japan has long been a byword for political stability with the conservative, market-friendly Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in power for all but four of the last 69 years.