Japan's rice prices have doubled in a year, straining households and fueling political tension ahead of key elections ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty ...

TOKYO — The price of rice doubled in Japan in the 12 months to May, figures showed on Friday, as an acceleration in inflation piled fresh pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of key ...

Japan’s core inflation rate accelerated to 3.7 per cent in May, official data showed today, posing a threat to Prime Minister ...

F OR YEARS Japan was a reassuring example for governments. Even as its net public debt peaked at 162% of GDP in 2020, it ...

TOKYO—Japanese voters deprived the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of the absolute majority it has held for over a decade in Japan’s lower house, with an election Sunday that prolongs a period ...

Local authorities in Tokyo are ramping up efforts to raise voter turnout ahead of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election on ...

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki’s rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced cash handouts as a key part of his election campaign to support households ...

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki’s rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...

Failure to secure a concrete deal may undermine Ishiba's leadership ahead of next month's upper house polls, despite his ...