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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, resolved to end nearly two decades of deflation and revive the economy, explains his economic and fiscal policies to his fellow G-8 chiefs, turning "Abenomics" into an international commitment in the process.
About 45 minutes from Tokyo’s skyscrapers, resting in the hinterlands of Tachikawa there is a land of mist and dragons. It’s a place where rolling hills tumble toward an Aztec pyramid, and children bounce on clouds. The place is called Showa Kinen Koen, and ...
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
Across the colorful show floor at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where players could become all manner of things, like a throat-slashing 18th-century pirate, zombie killer, a guardian of the last city on Earth, music-making sorcerer, ruthless Roman general, ...
Manu Ginobili ran onto the floor as fans stood and screamed. He went to the bench, and they chanted his name. The sights and sounds of so many San Antonio spring nights were back Sunday — and the real party might be just a ...
The "Abenomics" growth strategy just adopted looks like a wish list of budgets with project names that will be coveted by individual government ministries.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, resolved to end nearly two decades of deflation and revive the economy, explains his economic and fiscal policies to his fellow G-8 chiefs, turning "Abenomics" into an international commitment in the process.
The dark side of Abenomics is rearing its head as stock prices show erratic fluctuations. Institutional investors have made profits, but not ordinary citizens.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promises that his growth policies will revive the nation’s industrial might. For Takumi Tanaka at auto parts maker Uchida Co., times are worse than after the 2011 quake-tsunami catastrophe. Tanaka, managing director of the company, which was founded in 1955 ...
The Cabinet adopts two sets of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic and fiscal policy papers, filled with dozens of bold economic goals and no specifics on how to achieve them.
The third pillar of "Abenomics" approved by the Cabinet may have lacked the impact of its two predecessors, but everything will hinge on the steady execution of all three.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government pledges to hammer out concrete tax reforms by fall to bolster business investment, after its growth strategy unveiled last week failed to meet market expectations, driving down stocks.
Until a couple of months ago, Takashi Yamada had one of the most genteel jobs in Japan. Now, his days are so harried he doesn’t have time to eat lunch. Yamada, 45, is a government-bond trader at major brokerage Daiwa Securities Co. Shock-and-awe monetary ...
The Democratic Party of Japan has unveiled a final draft of its campaign platform for July’s House of Councilors election, criticizing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies. The platform of the DPJ, which lost power in the Dec. 16 general election, also attacks Abe ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday his government will draw up tax-easing measures in the fall as part of its economic growth strategy, and underscored that the nation cannot grow simply through austerity measures. “We will decide (on the annual reforms) for this year ...
The economy grew at an annualized rate of 4.1 percent during the first three months of the year in inflation-adjusted terms, upgraded from preliminary data on the back of an upward revision to business investment.
Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers have begun to openly express discontent over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic growth strategy ahead of July’s Upper House election. Many LDP members have turned on “Abenomics” since the Nikkei 225 stock average nosedived Wednesday on the market’s underwhelmed reaction ...