The city of Hiroshima, with its major employer Mazda, faces economic challenges due to U.S. tariffs on automobile imports.

Trump is making bold demands to open Japanese markets, backing them with threats of across-the-board and sectoral tariffs. His counterpart, Ishiba, leads a minority government facing significant ...

As nations worldwide race to meet the 2050 carbon neutrality target, Japan has emerged as a key player in implementing "green ...

If any country can shed light on the national repercussions of a financial meltdown, it is Japan. For a decade in the 1990s, Japanese government and economic leaders sought to work through the ...

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 ruling coalition is at risk of losing its majority in the upcoming upper house election, which could lead to political instability. The Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito struggle with low ...

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 ...

Since Abe took power, Japan has fallen from 14th to 26th among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development members in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business report as firms face a lot ...

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 ...

China’s long-term bond yields have fallen below Japan’s for the first time, a momentous economic shift indicative of growing deflationary pressures.. As reported by the Financial Times, this ...