That had Japan Inc. thinking the zero rate policy instituted in 1999 was finished. Ditto for the quantitative easing strategy the BOJ pioneered in 2001. Then came Trump 2.0’s ginormous trade war.

Japan offers community-based initiatives to combat population decline 03:16. Japan's population is declining at record speed while the number of foreign nationals residing in the country has risen ...

Japan has proposed raising the age of consent from 13 to 16 as a part of an overhaul of sex crime legislation after multiple rape acquittals in 2019.

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of Japanese women hold jobs than their American counterparts.

Japan is the only nation where married couples must use the same surname. Critics say it violates women's rights and, unless the rule is scrapped, all Japanese could be surnamed Sato in 500 years.

Japan’s government on Friday asked a court to order the dissolution of the Unification Church branch in Japan following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.

Japan did see a rise in youth unemployment (ages 15-24) in the 1990s, but that rise has since been reversed. Here, via the World Bank, are International Labor Organization estimates of youth ...

There's a dizzying array of taxes applied to cars in Japan, despite a 2019 revision designed to make things a little less burdensome. Typical of Japan, there's a lot going on here, and much of it ...

Japan has taken in hundreds of Ukrainians. The welcome for others has been less warm The Japanese government has given Ukrainians residency and work permits for up to a year.

Japan’s government faces pressure to curtail debt-fueled spending that some argue has staved off populist waves. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan, which has the ...

She was just 13 in 1945 when she was forced to toil for months in a factory servicing the desperate last gasp of Japan’s war effort. Today, Kim Jeong-ju can point to many culprits to blame.

Japan has made a huge push for its citizens to recycle, which is another reason for the small sizes of trash cans. McMorran says that some municipalities have as many as 20 different categories ...