Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Déjà vu abounds in Tokyo. Markets are celebrating a Japanese prime minister dusting off the same-old-same-old ...

Japan‘s economy contracted at a 1.8% annualized rate in the third quarter of 2025, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have caught up with the island nation’s exports. Trump reached a trade deal with Japan in July, announcing a 15% baseline ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new economic revitalisation minister, Minoru Kiuchi, said on Tuesday a weak yen has benefits to the economy and its demerits could be addressed by swiftly compiling a package of steps to ease the pain from rising living costs.

Sitting in the Oval Office this week, Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi gave a master class in grinning and bearing a terrible situation in more ways than one.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's economy expanded at an anemic 0.2% annual pace in the last quarter, the government reported Monday, with growth for all of 2025 at just 1.1%. Private consumption rose at a 0.4% annualized pace in October-December, but that was offset ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's government saw that the economy in October was recovering moderately because of solid capital expenditures in a monthly report issued on Wednesday. The government report also reiterated its cautiously optimistic outlook that the ...

TOKYO — Japan’s economy contracted at a 1.8% annual pace in July-September as President Donald Trump’s tariffs hit exports and private residential investment plunged. Data released by the government Monday showed that on a quarter-by-quarter basis ...

For years, India has ranked as the world’s fifth-largest economy, behind the US, China, Germany and Japan. Now it’s closing in on Japan, helped by its 1.4 billion-strong, relatively young population and by the shrinking size of Japan’s economy in dollar terms.

Japan's economy and industry minister has asked the International Energy Agency to consider additional coordinated oil releases. He cited concerns that supply shortages in Asia could have a considerable impact on the global economy.

TOKYO — Japan’s economy contracted at an annual pace of 2.3% in the July-September period, the government reported Monday, as exports suffered from the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and public investments slipped. The decline in ...