The upcoming C5+Japan Summit offers Tokyo its clearest opportunity in two decades to align its foreign policy with its ...

The Taiwan question, for Japan, is a distraction from far deeper and more structural challenges. Tokyo's future prosperity ...

Tokyo is spending heavily to regain a leading role in semiconductors, backing plants in Kumamoto and the high-risk Rapidus venture in the name of economic security. Public funding already exceeds ...

The strategy aims to raise labor productivity per person in rural areas to or above that in the Tokyo metropolitan area and ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government launched its economic strategy headquarters on Tuesday, aiming to boost the world's fourth-largest economy with public investment ...

In October 2025, Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister. Journalists and Japan-watchers in Tokyo and overseas wondered what her conservative approach would mean for the country’s ...

Japan's M&A deals have risen 54% to some $359 billion so far in 2025—part of it explaining the strong dealmaking in India by ...

The absence of robust industrial support, combined with the limitations of "Takaichi Economics" as an extension of "Abenomics ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's economy shrank almost 2% in the three months through September, as a drop in exports in the face of U.S. tariffs resulted in the first contraction in six quarters, government ...

At issue is not only the future of one of Japan’s most recognizable retail giants, but also the extent to which Tokyo’s economic nationalism will prevent majority foreign ownership of Japanese firms.

Markets are now focused less on the hike itself and more on how quickly the BOJ can keep normalising policy without destabilising the yen, government bonds or an economy that recently contracted.

This report is part of Strategic Japan, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by Japan’s leading foreign policy scholars on key regional and global challenges and the implications for the U ...