President Trump’s punitive tariffs hit Asia, with largest levies on Vietnam and smaller textile exporters. The largest ...

Japan's stock market is hitting new highs due to strong fiscal flows from government spending, current account surplus, and ...

The growth of Japan’s GDP may sound like good news for the country, but it also means it will have to pay more to reach its target to spend 2% of GDP on defense, adding to the woes of a nation ...

In 2022, Japan pledged ¥43 trillion to a military build-up that would span five years, aiming to double its defense spending in a departure from its long-held stance of keeping spending to 1% of GDP.

Elbridge A. Colby, nominee for the US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, says Japan should raise its defense spending to at least 3 percent of its GDP. Colby attended a Senate confirmation ...

The role of imports in GDP—Gross Domestic Product—confuses many people. The current political discussion about tariffs has triggered some of the misunderstanding. This article aims to help ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's economy expanded in the October-December quarter at a slower pace than initially reported, government data showed on Tuesday, weighed by weaker consumption but still ...

"If you look at GDP on its own, I don't think it will prevent the Bank of Japan (BOJ) from raising interest rates." The BOJ raised short-term interest rates in January to their highest in 17 years ...

Japan's economy expanded in the October-December ... The capital expenditure component of GDP, a barometer of private demand-led strength, rose 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter, revised up ...

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TOKYO :Japan's economy expanded in the October-December ... The capital expenditure component of GDP, a barometer of private demand-led strength, rose 0.6 per cent in the fourth quarter, revised ...

A downward revision of Japan’s Q4 GDP does little to dent the JPY bullish ... the Relative Strength Index (RSI) on the daily chart remains on the verge of breaking into the oversold territory ...