Japan’s economic rebound from the pandemic-induced contraction has been modest and uneven. Real GDP has grown in fits and starts since the sharp 2020 collapse, and as of Q1 2025, it remains just ...

Japan must diversify its trade relationships beyond the U.S. to mitigate risks, according to Hirofumi Yoshimura of the Japan ...

Is Japan's economy on the brink? Explore the debt crisis, deflation, and potential global consequences of Japan's economic challenges.

What is clear, however, is that most Japanese foresee a rocky economic road ahead. A 52% majority expect economic conditions to worsen over the next 12 months. In 2010, as the national economy showed ...

Japan was once celebrated as an economic powerhouse, to the extent that in the 1970s, American magazines fueled fears — much as they do today with China — of a Japan poised for global dominance.

One indication of Japan’s economic weakness is the recent plunge in the yen to its multi-decade low of 155 yen to the dollar. ... Japan’s demographic troubles make its economic challenges worse.

Debt, old age, stagnation: Japan's economy faces huge challenges. by Daniel Shane @CNNMoney October 20, 2017: 1:57 AM ET . Toshiba: Fall of a Japanese icon.

But Japan is steeling itself for a run of economic challenges. Trade wars and slowing exports have weighed heavily on growth.Economists worry that an increase in the national consumption tax ...

In 2013, Japan adopted “womenomics” as a core pillar of the nation's growth strategy, recognizing the power of women's economic participation to mitigate demographic challenges that threatened ...

It's estimated that the cost of damage from the giant earthquake and tsunami in Japan could exceed $300 billion. That doesn't include the costs to the economy from lost production. On top of that ...

Japan’s economic rebound from the pandemic-induced contraction has been modest and uneven. Real GDP has grown in fits and starts since the sharp 2020 collapse, and as of Q1 2025, it remains just ...