Japan's experience underscores a disturbing truth: Economists really have no idea how inflation works.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should let BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda finish the work he started.

If Prime Minister Abe and his party were less beholden to vested interests, his efforts to defeat deflation would gain more traction.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe still faces a host of tough economic challenges after he shuffled his Cabinet on Thursday, pundits said. He needs to redouble efforts to spread benefits from the economic recovery across the country, create new growth industries and boost productivity in order ...

With his political capital waning, leader looks set to fall back to his rhetoric on Abenomics.

The costs of not improving the lot of nonregular workers are enormous in terms of thwarted careers, social status, poverty — and even isolation, as they have a much lower marriage rate.

Japan will press ahead simultaneously with economic reform and constitutional changes as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tries to revive his declining popularity, according to lawmaker Yasutoshi Nishimura, who advises the prime minister. While Abe has vowed that he won't take his eyes off the economy, ...

During countless shared lunches and impromptu meetings, Takatoshi Ito made a detailed and persuasive case that sold Haruhiko Kuroda on the inflation targeting regime he's pursued relentlessly as governor of the central bank. That was back in 1999, when Kuroda ran Japan's currency policy ...

To shore up his ailing administration, Shinzo Abe is vowing to focus on the economy. But instead of unleashing yet more stimulus, analysts say the prime minister needs to take a hammer to an old chestnut: moribund wage growth. Facilitating salary increases would boost household ...

A fiscal 2017 white paper on Japan’s economy and finances highlights its labor shortage and poor productivity and suggests cutting working hours and eliminating worker discrimination.

Japan's economy is running the hottest relative to capacity since the global financial crisis. More than four years after the Bank of Japan launched its radical monetary easing, key conditions are aligning in its long battle to truly escape from deflation. The latest reading of ...