The postwar system that built Japan's formidable middle class is faltering. A two-tiered employment system is needed.

Governments are only now waking up to the need to regulate ICOs and their related tokens.

Anyone thinking about investing in a Japan startup should consider tips from Tokyo based angel investor Jonathan Epstein before taking the plunge.

"Russo-Japanese" Chuk Besher spent years researching Japan's multicultural history. Much later, son Noah, 8, had a question: "What does 'half' mean?"

Danny Risberg, chairman of both the European Business Council in Japan and Philips Electronics Japan, wants Japanese to become fast, smart and independent decision-makers.

As central banks prepare to start unwinding balance sheets later this year, there is growing concern about the financial soundness of the Bank of Japan.

Japanese firms must acquire a taste for startup mergers and acquisitions, if the nation is to regain its global competitive advantage.

Former Bank of Japan Policy Board member Sayuri Shirai says the central bank has done about all it can do to end the nation's deflationary mindset. More than four years ago it unleashed massive monetary easing, but taxpayers still doggedly save, fearing that public pensions ...

On arrival at Narita airport in 2009, the incoming chief executive of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., Albert Kirchmann, asked his assistant there to pick him up, "Tell me, what are 'my people' expecting?" Hesitantly, the assistant replied, "They are expecting you to ...

Stefan Lippert, a luminary from our community of Japan thought leaders, died recently at the age of 47.