Over the course of July, Japan recorded a small month-on-month fall in one of the country’s most sensitive — and too often ...

Trump’s critique of Japan was in vogue at the time. In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan’s industry, subsidised by the Japanese ...

The number of babies born to Japanese parents fell below 700,000 in 2024 for the first time since records began at the end of ...

The outlay by Gulf sovereign wealth funds has come even as the regional heavyweight, Saudi Arabia’s $925bn PIF, has said it ...

The BoJ’s hope is that labour shortages, which are increasing in severity because of the ageing population, will fuel ongoing ...

Rising interest rates promise profits if institutions can secure future business and stop deposits moving to larger cities ...

Deloitte is the first of the Big Four to report global figures this year. Its announcement comes against the backdrop of ...

Household energy supplier makes disclosure after failing to meet industry regulator’s capital adequacy targets ...

The recent move by Mexico to impose tariffs on countries with which it has no free trade agreement, and especially its targeting of China, confirms that the world is moving from multilateralism ...

As the hapless male chipmunk discovered in James Thurber’s short story “The Shrike and the Chipmunks” (published in The New Yorker in 1939) “early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and ...

I was pleased to read the article by Anjli Raval on employees owning shares in businesses (“Free shares aim to get staff invested in success”, Work & Careers, September 29).

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is closing in on a $10bn deal to buy the petrochemical division of Occidental Petroleum ...