When a global shortage of semiconductors left car buyers waiting months for vehicles and retailers scrambling for appliances, ...

Japan’s bid for strategic indispensability in semiconductors will only work with increased international cooperation and ...

Japan's economic revitalisation minister, Minoru Kiuchi, called on the central bank to closely communicate with the ...

The upcoming C5+Japan Summit offers Tokyo its clearest opportunity in two decades to align its foreign policy with its ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Two newly appointed members of the Japanese government's top economic panel called on Wednesday for an economic stimulus package larger than last year's, highlighting a stronger ...

Time will tell how long Takaichi’s popularity can hold against her contradictory economic agenda and political constraints ...

Takaichi Sanae gives her first press conference as prime minister of Japan, Oct. 21, 2025. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan Japan’s new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, outlined an ambitious ...

Steve Forbes praises Prime Minister Takaichi’s Thatcheresque inclinations, which could help Japan dig out of its economic rut. He warns that pursuing the same course as before will result in failure.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's government said on Monday that the economy was recovering moderately but that impact from U.S. trade policies was particularly evident in the auto industry. Although Tokyo ...

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 ...

The last thing that an over-indebted Japan struggling with inflation needs is a prime minister who advocates fiscal stimulus and a loose monetary policy to stimulate the Japanese economy. This would ...