"The trade deal struck with the U.S. is certainly a relief in that it offers some certainty that U.S. tariffs on Japan-made ...

Japan’s New Economic Challenge CFR Senior Fellow Sheila A. Smith says Japan is well positioned to offer leadership on coping with the global financial crisis. But a domestic political stalemate ...

Japan’s demographic troubles make its economic challenges worse. With a declining and rapidly aging population, there is little prospect that Japan will be able to grow its way out of its public ...

Leaders of the European Union and Japan have launched an alliance aimed at boosting economic cooperation, defending free ...

After Japan’s economy expanded 1.9 percent in 2023 – one of its strongest performances in decades – GDP effectively stood still during the first half of this year.

Still, this is just an opening to reboot the economy, not a guaranteed trend. Japan faces immense demographic challenges. Its population is shrinking by about 0.5% per year and is set to fall from ...

Sometimes, it’s the pressing election issues that no one is talking about that matter most. Especially when the omission is ...

While Japan weathered the COVID-19 pandemic better than most nations, its economy shrank by 4.5 percent in 2020, and the pandemic revealed strategic vulnerabilities in the country’s supply ...

Despite the trade deal with the United States slashing the tariff rate for Japan to 15 percent, the so-called reciprocal ...

Though off to a decent start, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida faces a 2022 of profound challenges. Between Covid-19, sluggish economic growth, and geopolitical tensions with China, Kishida ...