Japan, second only to the United States in economic heft, is heading deeper and deeper into trouble. Yesterday brought a blizzard of bad news that erased any last hopes that Asia's biggest economy ...

Talk of deflation for China is well wide of the mark, and obsessing over historical growth rates misses the point that 5% growth is sustainable and about the right pace of growth for an economy of ...

In broad strokes, the parallels are alarming. After a long boom, the Japanese economy in the 1990s, as America’s today, was jolted by a sharp plunge in the real estate market. In Tokyo, the government ...

A paper documenting several examples of recent protests by students and university employees on campuses in Japan following a period of privatisations and a move towards short term contracts.

Studies on the productivity of Japanese firms have been drawing considerable attention in recent years. In 2002, Fumio Hayashi, a Professor at the University of Tokyo, and Edward C. Prescott, a winner ...

Combine Japanese cultural tendencies toward formality, politesse, and indirection with the usual central banker’s love of opacity and econo-jargon, and you’d expect that a meeting with the deputy ...

BRAD DELONG posts a question: Japan is now 40 to 50 percent below what the world in 1991 would have estimated their GDP to be in 2012.Do we attribute this to:The forecasting community was just ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Twenty-five years ago, I heard a clutch of top American financial officials, including Timothy Geithner and ...

Japan was the prime threat to the US's economic dominance in the 1980s, but then things went wrong. Now, economists see worrying similarities between China in the 2020s and Japan in the 1990s. China ...

Mazda’s Autozam AZ-1 blended supercar design cues with Kei regulations, creating a lightweight, mid-engine sports car that ...