Japan’s economy managed to grow in the fourth quarter of last year, averting a recession, according to revised government data released Monday that had previously shown a contraction. Real gross ...

Japan's economy abruptly entered a recession on Thursday, causing it to lose its ranking as the third biggest in the world. What causes Japan's recession? Japan's economy has been negatively ...

Japan’s economy avoided a technical recession, revised government data showed on Monday, even though the upward change in the fourth quarter was weaker than expected and highlighted concerns ...

reform is impossible, no matter how painful and protracted the pre-crisis period actually was. This is, perhaps, the main lesson to be learned from the Great Japanese Recession.

Japan’s technical recession presents a challenge to the BOJ’s plans to begin phasing out its ultra-dovish policy this year. Worsening growth is likely to limit the extent to which the BOJ will ...

Rents for prime office space in Japan’s capital increased by 5.2 per cent in last year’s third quarter, the most in eight ...

Fiscal and monetary policies like cutting taxes or lowering interest rates can coax an economy out of recession. Enough on our economy. Japan and the UK are technically in a recession. These ...

Gross domestic product in Japan and the U.K. declined for two consecutive quarters in the second half, data showed Thursday. Nevertheless, the Nikkei finished 1.2% higher on the day, re ...

This is what we now recognize as a "balance-sheet recession," a term the Nomura economist Richard Koo coined in 1997 to describe Japan's economic sluggishness as society paid down debt from its ...

It seemed like everything Japan’s central bank tried to do to help didn’t work: Interest rates were slashed to zero, and kept there for a very long time; still, the recession continued.