On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...

Japan’s debt crisis and the August 2024 market tremors may mark the beginning of a larger phase transition in global finance. Central banks and governments are now constrained by years of fiscal ...

Aside from the question of growth, it remains unclear whether policymakers can reorient the country’s future trajectory ...

This time, it is solving the demographic and debt crisis by quietly inviting massive numbers of well-to-do middle class immigrants into Japan. Kyoto alone has seen more than 300,000 immigrants ...

Its central bank was passive, its interest ...

Japan’s bond market is falling apart in real time. The 30-year Japanese bond yield jumped to 3.20%, a fresh record.

Japan’s government bond market is spinning out of control, and it’s dragging America into the mess. Volatility across Japanese government bonds has doubled in ...

Upper House election approaches, the LDP leans on crisis rhetoric while the opposition fails to offer a credible plan to fund a widely supported tax cut.

Japan’s GDP, at $4.2 Trillion, is still well below its 1995 peak. Italy’s GDP, while higher than in the 1990s, is still roughly where it was before the Great Financial Crisis.

Japan is in political flux after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition lost its upper house majority for the first ...

The country that once dominated the global economy is now grappling with a severe debt crisis. The United States, with a GDP of $28 trillion, is burdened by a debt of $36 trillion.