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 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 ...

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 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 also raised the legal age of consent, so that sexual intercourse with someone under 16 is now considered rape. For a long time, the country had one of the lowest age of consent among ...

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 ...

Not only is Japan eating more rice grown overseas, the Finance Ministry reported the private sector imported a record 3,000 tons in fiscal 2024 to combat the shortage at home and ballooning prices ...

TOKYO — Japanese lawmakers on Friday adopted legislation to raise the country’s age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, an age limit that had remained unchanged since 1907 and was so low that it ...

The number of Americans living in Japan has grown slightly from 2020 to 2022, from 57,214 to 60,804. Some Americans cite Japan's cheaper healthcare and greater affordability as reasons for moving.

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.

The number of babies born in Japan in 2024 fell to a record low of 686,061, marking the first time the figure has dipped below 700,000 since statistic keeping began in 1899, the health ministry ...