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 ...

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

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.

Yields on 10-year Japanese government debt have hit their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis as markets begin to price in the risk of populist campaign pledges and political uncertainty ...

Spain’s economy is thriving, driven by a global boost in services, mainly tourism, overtaking the sluggish performance of the Japanese economy in the last decade.

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

Its central bank was passive, its interest ...

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 ...

Japan is ready to cooperate in holding a world summit on the financial crisis on condition that a strong action plan on tackling the problem is issued, Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said on ...

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.