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, ...

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 ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...

That has dragged down consumption and the broader economy, which depends heavily upon it, making it harder for the BOJ to execute a smooth exit from easy policy. Japan lags far behind other big ...

A measure of the public assessment of the current situation of the Japanese economy weakened further in October, and future ...

By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo The steady course of the Japanese economy and business environment that has helped attract a torrent of investment in the past two years could be undercut ...

The Japanese economy is likely to keep growing at a pace above its potential growth rate, the BoJ said. The bank said annual inflation is likely to be at around 2.5% for fiscal 2024 and then ...

Japan's biggest business lobby has called for steady salary increases for workers to help the economy grow. The policy is part of the Japan Business Federation's guidelines for managers in ...

Should the decline continue for the rest of the year, it would be the first annual net outflow in FDI since at least 1990, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s long-reigning coalition lost a majority in the parliamentary election, underscoring ...

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 ...