Japan's annual interest payments on government debt could surge more than 50% over the next few years, government estimates ...

The Japanese government expects its annual debt-servicing costs to rise to almost $230 billion over the next four years as the central bank’s campaign to gradually raise interest rates drives up ...

The remainder is public debt. Foreign governments hold a large portion of the public debt, while the rest is owned by U.S.

The weight of Japan's public debt, the highest in the world ... It is important to find a national consensus as quickly as possible in order to give life to a new concrete agreement on how ...

America’s national debt recently eclipsed $34 trillion for ... global economies after the U.S. — China ($17.9 trillion), Japan ($4.2 trillion), Germany ($4.0 trillion), India ($3.4 trillion ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, struggling to stabilize his minority government, said Friday he will seek to maintain ...

a plan criticized by some observers as populist spending that would worsen Japan’s national debt. Kishida said his priorities are to overcome deflation and to put the economy on a growth track.

Japan is worse, with gross debt at more than ... is the unsustainable increase in the major developed countries’ national debt. Failure to address the explosion of government borrowing will ...

the survivors of last month’s earthquake in central Japan and even to reduce the national debt. The sense among some, analysts say, is that Ukraine is geographically distant from Japan and that ...

Some smokers have complained about the removal, saying that smokers helped pay off the debt accumulated by Japanese National Railways, a state-owned enterprise that was privatized into Japan ...