The Bank of Japan is now pointing the finger at chronic labour shortages—rather than sluggish demand—as the culprit behind its economic woes, hinting that interest rates could rise faster than a sushi ...

U.S. President Donald Trump meets Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the first time on Friday as two allies wary of ...

Kong stocks strutted into their strongest weekly performance in four months, while the yen flexed its muscles on rising rate ...

An electronics store in Tokyo has apologized after hundreds of Chinese buyers who flocked there to get their hands on the ...

Japan's real gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to have risen an annualised 1.0% in October-December, according to a ...

The government needs to prepare now to avoid negative surprises four or five years down the road, the IMF’s Japan mission ...

Outlays adjusted for inflation gained 2.7% in December from a year earlier, according to internal affairs ministry data.

Japan's economy probably expanded in the final three months of 2024 marking a third quarter of consecutive growth, a Reuters poll showed, as strong business investment outweighed anaemic consumption.

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labor shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

The Bank of England has lowered its key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points as the UK economy shows signs of stagnation.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will go to the White House to try to rekindle Japan’s relationship with President Donald Trump ...