Japan is a country where long memory and fast change coexist in everyday life. Ancient shrines sit beside neon streets.

USD/JPY rose after weaker Tokyo inflation and Japanese retail sales data cooled BoJ rate hike bets, shifting focus to US producer prices and the Fed’s rate outlook.

Trump has imposed a 25 percent import tariff on Japanese automobiles and a 10 percent base-line tariff on all other imports from Japan. In addition, he has threatened to impose a 24 percent reciprocal ...

The GDP figure was a larger drop than the 0.1% contraction expected by economists polled by Reuters. Japan's GDP data comes at a time when the country is locked in trade negotiations with the U.S., ...

Japan’s new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, outlined an ambitious vision for Japan’s economy and security in her first policy speech at the Diet on October 24, pledging to confront soaring living ...

Tokyo is spending heavily to regain a leading role in semiconductors, backing plants in Kumamoto and the high-risk Rapidus venture in the name of economic security. Public funding already exceeds ...

When the United States hosted its second presidential-level C5+1 Summit with the leaders of Central Asia on November 6, it signaled a shift that has been building quietly for several years: the region ...

For the first time in decades, Japan is experiencing sustained inflation and wage growth, prompting speculation that its deflation era may be over. Yet weak consumer spending, rising bond yields and ...

TOKYO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The Japanese government revised down its view on public investment but largely kept its overall outlook on the economy intact in a monthly report published on Friday. In its ...

Pedestrians cross a road in Tokyo, Japan. Sometimes, it’s the pressing election issues that no one is talking about that matter most. Especially when the omission is by design — like the role of women ...

In “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway famously has one of his characters describe how he went bankrupt. “First gradually, and then suddenly.” Judging by the way Japanese bond prices are now ...