With his calls to limit foreign workers, fight globalism and put “Japanese First,” Sohei Kamiya has brought a fiery ...

Changes in Japan’s political environment make immigration a challenging issue for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party in ...

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

T HE IMAGE Tamaki Yuichiro wants to convey is of upward mobility. His campaign poster shows him grinning against a vivid ...

Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has resisted U.S. calls for Australia to raise its defense spending ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Germany's GfK consumer sentiment index is scheduled for Thursday. It is followed by Friday's release of the Ifo economic sentiment index, as well as Italy's consumer and business confidence and France ...

As reaffirmed by the latest CPI data, domestic prices--especially for goods--remain strong, but with the conclusion of U.S.-Japan trade negotiations still uncertain, the BOJ will likely continue to ...

The drop in exports and the widening trade deficit add to concerns that Japan’s economy could shrink again in the second quarter, ushering in a technical recession. Domestic consumption has ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government on Wednesday maintained its view that the Japanese economy is recovering moderately, supported in part by improvements ...

[TOKYO] Japan’s economy contracted in the first quarter, a revised estimate confirmed on Monday (Jun 9), weakness that supports the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) cautious stance and keeps political pressure ...