The spike in oil prices amid the Middle East crisis could lead to lasting inflationary pressure in Japan's economy over ​the ...

Sitting in the Oval Office this week, Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi gave a master class in grinning and bearing a terrible ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Déjà vu abounds in Tokyo. Markets are celebrating a Japanese ...

Japan‘s economy contracted at a 1.8% annualized rate in the third quarter of 2025, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have caught up with the island nation’s exports. Trump reached a trade deal with ...

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The Iran conflict will have both direct and indirect effects on Japan’s economic, security, and energy outlook, as well as ...

The fall was sharper than the 2.1% contraction expected by economists polled by Reuters. Exports to the U.S. also continued to fall, dropping 10.1% in July. While the effects of the 15% tariffs will ...

Both public sentiment and political trends in Japan mean that a firm approach toward China is likely to endure.

TOKYO (AP) — Share prices have soared recently in Tokyo on hopes that conservative Japanese lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be Japan’s first female prime minister, will double down ...

On October 21, Sanae Takaichi, the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was voted in as the 104 th prime minister of Japan; the first woman selected for the nation’s highest post.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new economic revitalisation minister, Minoru Kiuchi, said on Tuesday a weak yen has benefits to the economy and its demerits could be addressed by swiftly compiling a package ...

For years, India has ranked as the world’s fifth-largest economy, behind the US, China, Germany and Japan. Now it’s closing in on Japan, helped by its 1.4 billion-strong, relatively young population ...