Chinese policymakers — who are facing an even more severe housing and demographic crisis than Japan —are at risk of making ...

Japanese companies’ rigid hierarchies can make it hard to confront bosses. Enter “proxy quitters.” TOKYO — Shota Shimizu slid ...

In the 1990s, Japan faced one of the most devastating financial collapses in modern history. In this documentary, we examine the rise and fall of the Japanese economic bubble—how it formed, why ...

China’s economy today bears an unsettling resemblance to Japan’s in the 1990s, when the collapse of a housing bubble led to ...

Japan’s economy has struggled with meagre growth throughout several “lost decades” following the collapse of a massive asset bubble in the early 1990s.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, Japan's economy slipped by 0.4 percent year-on-year, adjusted for inflation, after a 2.9 percent tumble in Q3. Overall, it grew by 1.9 percent last year.

Japan’s transition to a more conventional macroeconomic and monetary regime represents an important global shift, QNB said ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

Japan's economy was the envy of the world in the 1980s—it grew at an average annual rate (as measured by GDP) of 3.89% in the 1980s, compared to 3.07% in the United States. But Japan's economy ...

When its bubble economy collapsed, Japan was relatively rich and technologically advanced. The country entered the crisis with modest government debt.