Japan’s 10-year bond yields are currently around 1.2%. The ministry expects the provisional rate to reach 2.2% in fiscal 2026, followed by 2.4% and 2.5% in the subsequent years.

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 ...

If the Bank of Japan had behaved in a similar manner to its G 10 peers, notes Tim Baker of Deutsche Bank, the country’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

This marks a 25% increase from projected costs in the coming fiscal year. Servicing Japan’s oversized debt is already expected to chew up close to a quarter of the annual budget for the year ...