Japan’s financial markets are drawing renewed global attention as equities post one of their strongest advances in decades.

The relationship between Japan and the Philippines stands as one of the most enduring and strategically significant partnerships in Southeast Asia.

Steve Forbes praises Prime Minister Takaichi’s Thatcheresque inclinations, which could help Japan dig out of its economic rut. He warns that pursuing the same course as before will result in failure.

Then-Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi inspects an apple orchard in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, part of a JICA Partnership Program, Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan At the ...

Trump has imposed a 25 percent import tariff on Japanese automobiles and a 10 percent base-line tariff on all other imports from Japan. In addition, he has threatened to impose a 24 percent reciprocal ...

Bangladesh is stepping into a new phase of trade diplomacy as it signs its first Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Japan tomorrow, a deal meant to preserve duty-free market access after the ...

A high-level seminar in Islamabad will explore how Japan and Pakistan can build long-term business partnerships anchored in ...

When Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi took office, she pledged to focus on economic improvement. After her Taiwan comments, new missteps could prove costly to Japan, the region, even the ...

Tokyo is spending heavily to regain a leading role in semiconductors, backing plants in Kumamoto and the high-risk Rapidus venture in the name of economic security. Public funding already exceeds ...

In “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway famously has one of his characters describe how he went bankrupt. “First gradually, and then suddenly.” Judging by the way Japanese bond prices are now ...