Japan should be on alert for any spillover effects from rising foreign market volatility that could affect liquidity conditions for its financial institutions, the International Monetary Fund said on ...

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.

Japan's finance minister on Friday said he ... its fiscal health after prolonged stimulus and spending worsened a national debt that is the heaviest in the industrialized world.

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 ...

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.

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 ...