According to the International Monetary Fund, Japan will drop to the world’s fifth-largest economy in 2026, falling behind ...

The upcoming C5+Japan Summit offers Tokyo its clearest opportunity in two decades to align its foreign policy with its ...

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 ...

The Taiwan question, for Japan, is a distraction from far deeper and more structural challenges. Tokyo's future prosperity ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government launched its economic strategy headquarters on Tuesday, aiming to boost the world's fourth-largest economy with public investment ...

The strategy aims to raise labor productivity per person in rural areas to or above that in the Tokyo metropolitan area and ...

In October 2025, Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister. Journalists and Japan-watchers in Tokyo and overseas wondered what her conservative approach would mean for the country’s ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's economy shrank almost 2% in the three months through September, as a drop in exports in the face of U.S. tariffs resulted in the first contraction in six quarters, government ...

This report is part of Strategic Japan, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by Japan’s leading foreign policy scholars on key regional and global challenges and the implications for the U ...

Japan's M&A deals have risen 54% to some $359 billion so far in 2025—part of it explaining the strong dealmaking in India by ...

When a global shortage of semiconductors left car buyers waiting months for vehicles and retailers scrambling for appliances, a once-abstract phrase—economic security—became suddenly tangible. The ...

Discover Japan Inc., a term describing Japan's centralized economic system and export-led growth strategy from the 1980s, leading to economic stagnation in the 1990s.