This will melt your hearts. On March 11, Japanese frozen desserts company Akagi Nyugyo delivered some bad news to millions of customers: The price for…
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UNWANTED ADVANCES
A third of Japanese women have been sexually harassed at work, many by their boss
Almost a third of Japanese women say that they have been sexually harassed at work, with one in four facing unwanted physical contact, according to…
MENOMICS
Japan’s latest attempt to get more women into the workplace is this all-male panel
How best to support “womenomics,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s much-touted push for greater female participation in the national workforce? In Kanagawa, the prefecture of…
EXPECTING MORE
Japanese women are speaking out against “maternity harassment”
Expecting mothers in Japan face tremendous social pressure to choose between having either a child or a career, and sometimes get assigned work that’s difficult…
P&L
Japanese deaths outnumbered births by almost 300,000 last year
The numbers: The number of births in Japan is estimated to be just 1.001 million in 2014, the lowest on record for the fourth consecutive…
Abenomics isn’t working out so well for the man who created it
While Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is making new friends in Latin America this week, he is losing them at home. Abe’s domestic approval rating…
BRAGGING RIGHTS
Japan’s economy actually grew faster than China’s in the first quarter, if only momentarily
No.1 again – if only for an instant. Japan's GDP growth accelerates ahead of China in first quarter. pic.twitter.com/aBA03PCMjN — Tom Orlik (@TomOrlik) May 15,…
TIMIDITY TRAP
Japan is doomed unless it learns to love inflation
It’s hard to believe, but Japan’s total economy is smaller now than it was 20 years ago. The country’s story has become an all-too-familiar one:…
IT'S RAINING YEN
Japan’s top companies are giving workers their first pay raise in years—but it’s not enough
Japanese workers at some of the world’s largest manufacturers are getting their first pay raise (paywall) since 2008. Toyota, Honda, and Toshiba announced average base…
HOUSTON
Turning Japan into a global gambling hotspot may be just the ticket for Abenomics
The world’s biggest gambling company has vowed to spend “whatever it takes” (up to $10 billion) to set up a casino in Japan. Las Vegas…
HOUSTON
More Japanese women are working—but for the economy to thrive they need to be running things
Japan sure has it tough: Even if the world’s third-biggest economy triumphs against deflation, a rapidly aging population will make it increasingly hard to achieve…
HOUSTON
A year on, Abenomics is finally going to fix Japan’s runaway trade deficit
One of the only straightforward things about Abenomics, prime minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to save Japan from deflation, was that quantitative easing would batter down…
