A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...

The city of Hiroshima, with its major employer Mazda, faces economic challenges due to U.S. tariffs on automobile imports.

Japan has worked hard to attract foreigners to boost its sluggish economy but now the perception there are too many has ...

Opposition parties argue that cutting or scrapping the consumption tax would support growth and ease strains on households after three years of consumer price inflation above the Bank of Japan’s 2 per ...

Trump is making bold demands to open Japanese markets, backing them with threats of across-the-board and sectoral tariffs. His counterpart, Ishiba, leads a minority government facing significant ...

On the broader agenda, South Africa’s Treasury Director General Duncan Pieterse said the G20 hoped to issue the first ...

Beijing plans to hand out about $500 annually for each child until the age of 3, but it’s not clear if that’s enough to reverse a falling fertility rate that poses major challenges.

Japan's shaky minority government is poised for another setback in an upper house vote on Sunday, an outcome that could jolt ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is facing a critical electoral test on Sunday that could further complicate the ...

Throughout the spring, Ishiba battled to reach a deal on the government’s budget and to assuage concerns among the public ...