The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said Wednesday that it projects Japan will see real economic growth of 1.2 percent for 2018, up 0.2 percentage point from its previous forecast in June. The OECD's latest Interim Economic Outlook report also said Japan's real gross ...
Pulling South Korea and Indonesia into the TPP tent would make the free trade pact all the more meaningful.
Tokyo and the West alike are failing to heed Japan's economic lessons.
Graying Japan faces a long list of daunting challenges, but it still has great potential.
Japan's growth rate for the second quarter has been revised down to 0.6 percent from an initial estimate of 1.0 percent, government data showed Friday. But the latest data still marks the longest period of expansion in more than a decade for the world's third-largest ...
Retail sales in July rose 1.9 percent from a year earlier to ¥12.2 trillion, up for the ninth straight month, the industry ministry said Wednesday. Sales of summer goods were brisk as temperatures soared nationwide in the reporting month, ministry officials said. The ministry said retail ...
The economy has been recovering moderately, the government said Monday in retaining its assessment for the third straight month in August. Buoyed by the effects of an extra budget for fiscal 2016, the government upgraded its evaluation of public investment, which is now viewed as ...
Japan's current period of economic expansion, the start of which coincided with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's return to power, is believed to have entered its 57th month in August, tying the second-longest boom in the postwar period. The expansionary phase began in December 2012, when ...
Private equity has the potential to shake up Japan's cozy, stagnant corporate world, and in the process help revive it from its long productivity slump.
Recognizing Japan's quality bubble is the first step to appreciating and assessing its significant value.
Japanese companies that have an appetite for overseas M&As should first learn from the mistakes of others.
Japan is favoring more machines over increased immigration to bolster its dwindling workforce, but that solution won't increase domestic consumption.
