Japans Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has approved a $117 billion supplementary budget for the current fiscal year, marking ...

Tokyo’s version of Trump’s cost-cutting department follows stimulus plans that fuelled worries about fiscal sustainability ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government on Friday finalised a $117 billion supplementary budget for this ...

Private consumption, which makes up more than half of Japan’s GDP, has grown by only 0.1%. High living expenses and stagnant ...

Tensions developed after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that if China fought to take Taiwan, it could amount to a ...

Tokyo's CPI inflation in November was steady, with headline inflation up 2.7% year-on-year and core inflation up 2.8%, ...

Japan's government will urge the central bank to focus on achieving strong economic growth accompanied by stable prices in an outline of its stimulus package, a draft of the outline seen by Reuters ...

Shipments from automakers in particular plummeted, following a period of hiking exports before tariffs came into effect.

Japan’s resilience, despite the world’s highest public debt ratio, stems from its debt structure. But the conditions ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has unveiled a massive ¥21.3tn ($135.4bn) stimulus package designed to spur economic ...

The Japanese economy shrank 1.8 percent from the same quarter last year as U.S. tariffs dampened automobile exports and ...

Japan’s economy contracted less than expected in Q3 2025 as domestic consumption offset weak exports, though trade tensions, ...