For a sense of the challenges Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda faces in weaning the world's fourth-largest economy off ...

(Bloomberg) -- After three decades of stagnation in Japan, one of the most visible ... the town of Misato shows more familiar scenes of economic distress. Once busy shopping streets are now ...

TOKYO—Japan’s newly appointed economy minister showed tolerance for gradual monetary tightening by the Bank of Japan as long as it doesn’t ruin the nation’s efforts to defeat deflation.

Japan has avoided falling into a technical recession after its official economic growth figures were revised. The revised data shows gross domestic product (GDP) was 0.4% higher in the last three ...

New economic revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa said he is eager to step up efforts to convert Japan into a growth-oriented economy and fully eliminate deflation. In a recent interview with ...

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged on 20 September, with Governor Kazuo Ueda signalling no immediate need to raise them due to global economic uncertainty. Ueda said Japan's economy ...

TOKYO—Japan’s new prime minister has instructed his cabinet ministers to come up with a comprehensive economic package, taking his first step toward the goal of ensuring the country manages to ...

Japanese companies are accelerating such collaboration to compete against leading U.S. and Chinese manufacturers in ...

The Bank of Japan has upgraded its assessment of the Hokuriku region's economy, saying it's on a moderate recovery path. That's despite the lingering effects of January's earthquake in the Noto ...

The decline in import costs will likely shift the Bank of Japan's attention to whether a more demand-driven rise in inflation takes hold in the world's fourth-largest economy. The corporate goods ...

The frail external demand undermines Japan's quest to drive sustainable economic growth, analysts say, especially given a growing risk of a slowdown in the U.S. and further weakness in China's ...