Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday while giving a campaign speech in Nara prefecture, ending the life of the lawmaker who set the tone for Japan's economic future. Abe's ...

Data geeks rejoice! There are now even more statistics to judge the success or failure of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic program, or "Abenomics." Hitotsubashi University, in collaboration with ...

People wearing protective masks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, are seen at an area with plenty of cheap accommodation for day labourers in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's stock ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Both Noah Smith for Bloomberg and Matt O’Brien for the Washington Post —prompted I ...

The world seems to be slowly crawling its way out of its mini-depression, but it certainly doesn't feel like the global economy is firing on all cylinders. How do we get there? A key country to watch ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the lower house of the Diet on 21 November and called a snap general election on 14 December. At the same time, Abe announced that he would postpone the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new leader Shigeru Ishiba appointed a proponent of former premier Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics" policies as finance minister on Tuesday, in an apparent balancing act to alleviate ...

Recently, attacks on Abenomics have intensified. One impetus is recent remarks by Koichi Hamada, a former Yale University professor and one of the godfathers of Abenomics, when he said he recently ...

Constitutional reform, the strengthening of Japan-US security arrangements, foreign diplomacy spanning the globe, and Abenomics can be cited as the four pillars of the political ambitions that ...

More than five years have passed since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power at the end of 2012. Between then and now, Japan has seen steady economic growth and its unemployment rate fall by nearly ...

When Japan's government released the country's newest GDP figure for the second quarter, the annualized real growth rate decreased to a negative 1.6%. The decline was mainly attributed to two factors, ...