"The trade deal struck with the U.S. is certainly a relief in that it offers some certainty that U.S. tariffs on Japan-made ...

The LDP’s poor upper house result compounds uncertainty at a time when Japan’s quiet leadership is critical for regional ...

Despite the trade deal with the United States slashing the tariff rate for Japan to 15 percent, the so-called reciprocal ...

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 ...

Still, this is just an opening to reboot the economy, not a guaranteed trend. Japan faces immense demographic challenges. Its population is shrinking by about 0.5% per year and is set to fall from ...

But the global economic fallout has begun to take its toll on Japan’s cash-rich banks as well as other sectors of Japanese industry. Japan’s automakers have already been hard-hit.

Leaders of the European Union and Japan have launched an alliance aimed at boosting economic cooperation, defending free ...

After Japan’s economy expanded 1.9 percent in 2023 – one of its strongest performances in decades – GDP effectively stood still during the first half of this year.

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

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 ...

By Michael Schiffer The following is a contribution to the Mainichi Shimbun from Michael Schiffer, who served as assistant ...

But Japan is steeling itself for a run of economic challenges. Trade wars and slowing exports have weighed heavily on growth.Economists worry that an increase in the national consumption tax ...