Abenomics

More and more Japanese companies are rising to the call of prime minister Shinzo Abe to fix Japan’s moribund economy by giving employees the flexibility…

Tokyo Japan’s “waiting-list children” (taiki jido) are a national crisis. More than 23,000 children are waiting for spots at government-operated childcare centers by the latest…

Shinzo Abe will be the first sitting Japanese prime minister to visit Pearl Harbor when he makes the trip later this month to commemorate today’s…

By Japanese measures, it’s been a good year for women in politics. The country now has a female running the massive metropolis of Tokyo, a…

Japan goes to the polls this Sunday (July 10) in an election that could eventually lead to the nation changing the pacifist clause of its…

Of all the challenges facing Japan’s sluggish economy, the most daunting one is demographic. The country’s aging, shrinking population is a drag on growth and…

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…

After the Great Recession, central banks undertook extraordinary efforts, but with un-extraordinary results. The US Federal Reserve first backstopped the entire financial system, then printed…

The Nikkei 225 has been a world-beater this year. Despite the country’s stop-and-start economy (four recessions in five years), Japan’s benchmark index has managed to…

It takes rare circumstances to get a country’s top banker to demand bigger pay raises for union workers, but that’s exactly what we are seeing…

The world’s third-largest economy has been spending more time shrinking than growing these days. Japan’s GDP appears to have shrunk 0.8% in the third quarter…

Japan needs more women in supervisory positions, believes prime minister Shinzo Abe. The nation’s slumping economy faces an aging population and shrinking workforce, and women…