Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...

Observers contrasted Shigeru Ishiba with the late former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who formed close ties with ...

It is a key indicator used to compare the size of a country’s economy. The United States leads the world in nominal GDP, followed by China. The switch in rankings between Japan and Germany in ...

Ishiba pledged to revitalize the rural economy, address Japan’s falling birth ... plans to increase the military budget and ...

Families and households are facing increased financial burdens, which have been exacerbated by the weak yen, a sluggish ...

Japan, the world’s fourth-largest economy, “is faced with the most severe and complicated ... The only way to revive it, he said, is for Nippon Steel to reach an agreement with United Steelworkers, a ...

Japan's economy has not had a good 2024 ... How did Japan's currency get here, and why are many industry experts blaming the United States? There are several factors, but it is mainly a "product ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday unveiled a $65 billion plan to boost the country's chip and artificial intelligence industries via subsidies and other financial incentives.

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Cornelia Woll, Sciences Po Paris 'Globalizing Oil: Firms and Oil Market Governance in France, Japan, and the United States is a well-written, theoretically compelling, and empirically-rich book ...