Japan is flush with national pride this week, thanks to Kei Nishikori, the tennis phenom who knocked off seemingly indestructible Novak Djokovic to reach the U.S. Open finals and become the first ...

SHANGHAI/TOKYO -- Chinese regulators are turning to Japan for lessons on economic history, determined to keep the world's second biggest economy from taking the same path of recession and deflation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Japan, Northeast Asia, and U.S. policy toward the region. Abe spent some time situating his comments in the larger flow of ...

Although Japan is now best remembered for two decades of economic stagnancy, its post-war development plan can still serve as a model for emerging countries and economies recovering from crisis. This ...

There is a great deal to remember this week, the one year anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis. Few events in recent history have combined to such an intense ...

RECENTLY, auditors for General Motors raised substantial doubt about whether the automaker will survive. But while Japanese automaker Toyota is also taking a hit as global auto sales slump, analysts ...

In the years following the global financial crisis, economists and investors have gotten very comfortable with very high, and seemingly persistent, government debt. The nonchalance may be underpinned ...

An aerial view of Oshima-Mura, Japan, after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the area in March 2011. (TNS) — In the wake of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, ...

Some experts have observed that the current global financial crisis resembles the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy in the early 1990s. And indeed, the under­lying behavior was the same: Financial ...

SOMA, Japan (Reuters) - Tamio Hayashi, 77, doubted he could ever navigate the internet systems set up to register for COVID-19 vaccines across most of Japan. He hated the idea of using the ...