Throughout the spring, Ishiba battled to reach a deal on the government’s budget and to assuage concerns among the public ...

Japan's sales tax rate is set at 10%, except for food items at 8%. Ishiba has shunned opposition calls to slash the sales tax ...

By Makiko Yamazaki (Reuters) -Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Thursday called for vigilance against excessive foreign exchange volatility at the meeting of finance leaders from the Group ...

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to ...

Fears of a recession are mounting in the world's fourth-largest economy, after export to the US declined for the second month in a row in June. View on euronews ...

Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield climbed to its highest level since 2008 ahead of an upper house election.

Investors in Japanese government bonds are bracing for a potential power shift in upper house elections this weekend that ...

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

Japan-U.S. ties can also focus on engaging multilaterally, such as with Australia or South Korea, to address the issues raised in the Economic 2+2. Since Japan is preparing itself to make concrete ...

At the same time, in the first quarter of this year, the economy registered negative economic growth and core price inflation rose to 3.5 percent or considerably above the Bank of Japan’s two ...

While there is some concern that the United States or Europe could enter a recession this year, Mr. Kobayashi expects that “demand will continue to lead modest growth for some time” in Japan.

Japan's economy has been struggling for two decades and faces some of the same problems the U.S. has. Here, a man in Tokyo passes an electronic board displaying falling global markets.