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 ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers predicted that policy makers in developed nations around the world will study the legacy of Abenomics, a framework he described as an ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has renewed focus on a key economic strategy he dubbed "Abenomics." The policy was aimed at jump-starting Japan's growth and ending the deflation that had ...

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 ...

In an era of unprecedented, globally synchronized and at times controversial interventions by developed market central banks, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is currently engaged in the most ambitious policy ...

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition Leading Japan economist Takatoshi Ito once described Japan’s underlying problem: “When an economy is growing, governments can afford to ...