Japan’s economic rebound from the pandemic-induced contraction has been modest and uneven. Real GDP has grown in fits and starts since the sharp 2020 collapse, and as of Q1 2025, it remains just ...

Japan's foreign minister says he wants to promote a rules-based international economic order and cooperation in broad areas, ...

Japan must diversify its trade relationships beyond the U.S. to mitigate risks, according to Hirofumi Yoshimura of the Japan ...

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 ...

Research Institute released a new report titled “Retirement Readiness in Japan: Financial Security and Risk Perceptions.” The report is based on a survey of 750 Japanese respondents conducted in ...

One indication of Japan’s economic weakness is the recent plunge in the yen to its multi-decade low of 155 yen to the dollar. ... Japan’s demographic troubles make its economic challenges worse.

Debt, old age, stagnation: Japan's economy faces huge challenges. by Daniel Shane @CNNMoney October 20, 2017: 1:57 AM ET . Toshiba: Fall of a Japanese icon.

In 2013, Japan adopted “womenomics” as a core pillar of the nation's growth strategy, recognizing the power of women's economic participation to mitigate demographic challenges that threatened ...

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 ...

It's estimated that the cost of damage from the giant earthquake and tsunami in Japan could exceed $300 billion. That doesn't include the costs to the economy from lost production. On top of that ...

Japan’s economic rebound from the pandemic-induced contraction has been modest and uneven. Real GDP has grown in fits and starts since the sharp 2020 collapse, and as of Q1 2025, it remains just ...