Japan’s economy was on track to surpass the U.S., dominating global markets and leading the world in technology and finance. But today, it faces decades of stagnation, deflation, and slow growth. What ...

Japan’s economy narrowly avoids recession as growth figures revised Gross domestic product grows 0.4 percent amid expectations of an end to negative interest rates as soon as this month.

In Brief. Japan experienced the ‘bubble economy’ throughout the 1980s, followed by its subsequent burst in the early 1990s. For nearly 20 years after that, it suffered from economic stagnation ...

In the 1990s, Japan faced one of the most devastating financial collapses in modern history. In this documentary, we examine the rise and fall of the Japanese economic bubble—how it formed, why ...

STORY: Japanese stocks hit a record high on Thursday. The moment drew a spontaneous round of applause on the trading floor at Nomura in Tokyo. Decades on from Japan’s bubble era economy, the ...

What Was Japan’s Lost Decade? Between 1991 and 2001, Japan’s once red-hot economy was in trouble. An asset bubble had formed in both its housing and stock ...

In Brief. At more than 145 yen per dollar, the Japanese yen has slipped to a 24-year low. After the Bank of Japan (BoJ) signalled further depreciation would be tolerated, Finance Minister Shunichi ...

The stock market is not the economy—just look at what’s happening in Japan. Japan’s equity markets broke a record on Thursday, when the Nikkei 225 closed at 39,098.68. It’s not just an all ...

China can learn from Japan on how to deal with pollution and avoid dangers of a "bubble economy," a former senior official from Japan said yesterday. "Japan witnessed severe environmental problems ...

TOKYO — Japan’s economy is now the world’s fourth-largest after it contracted in the last quarter of 2023 and fell behind Germany. The government reported the economy shrank at an annual ...

In the fourth quarter of 2023, Japan's economy slipped by 0.4 percent year-on-year, adjusted for inflation, after a 2.9 percent tumble in Q3. Overall, it grew by 1.9 percent last year.