Tag: Japan

No restrictions were placed on residents’ movements, and businesses from restaurants to hairdressers stayed open.

Japan’s top-flight soccer league is ready to resume its season within weeks of the country’s pro baseball league starting play. The J-League is expected to officially announce its plans on Friday.

Japanese government officials are pushing for stricter cyberbullying laws following the suicide of a beloved professional wrestler.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet approved a proposed 32 trillion-yen ($296 billion) supplementary budget Wednesday to help fund $1.1 trillion in measures to cushion the blow to the economy from …

One of Japan’s largest online brokerages will attempt to take shareholder activism into the mainstream with a new fund whose managers will “crowdsource” ideas from thousands of retail investors on how …

Internationally exposed Japanese stocks will benefit if the global recovery is faster than expected, but also have the mountainous cash holdings to outperform if things go wrong.

Japan will compile a fresh stimulus package worth $1.1 trillion, which would be among the world’s largest fiscal plans to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic.

The total amount Japan plans to spend combating the virus fallout reached 234 trillion yen — roughly 40% of Japan’s gross domestic product.

In a story May 23, 2020, about Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s radio show, The Associated Press erroneously spelled book titles …

The mystery of Japan’s response to the coronavirus pandemic can be boiled down to a simple question: how could it possibly have gone this well? From the beginning, the government of Shinzo Abe has …