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Japan's April household spending unexpectedly falls
Japanese household spending unexpectedly fell in April, government data showed on Friday, as consumers tightened their purse ...
Japan’s Early May Exports Drop as Tariff War Disrupts Commerce
Japan’s exports fell in the first 20 days of May as the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs continued to disrupt trade.
Japan-based company is poised for its moon-landing attempt
Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, is expected to attempt to touch down on the moon at 3:17 p.m.
Japan eases demand for US auto tariff repeal, proposes scaled reduction plan, Asahi reports
Japan has eased its demand for a full repeal of the 25% U.S. auto tariff and is instead proposing a mechanism to reduce the ...
Pressure Mounts for Japan to Adjust Bond Sales as Soon as July
Expectations in the market are intensifying that the Japanese government may adjust debt issuance as soon as next month by ...
Japan's Birth Rate Crisis Worsens
Japan's steadily declining births and overall aging population present serious long-term risks, threatening to sap the ...
Annual births fall to another record low in Japan as its population emergency deepens
The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899. The government data ...
Nara: Step Into Ancient Japan, Where Deer Roam Free
Nara Japan offers beauty, history and deer encounters, and is especially gorgeous during cherry blossom season.
In Japan, a U.S. security ally, anger over ‘unacceptable’ steel treatment
In Tokyo, there’s concern — and more than a little trepidation — over what the Nippon Steel deal and doubled tariffs portend ...
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Japan’s Immigration Policy and the Kurdish Population
In a 2024 article on Japan’s changing refugee policy in the Asia-Pacific Journal, Maximilien Xavier Rehm, a researcher at ...