As fiscal pressure rapidly builds in Japan, U.S. and Japanese accounting standard-setters met in Tokyo to discuss alignment in areas like M&A and environmental credits.
Japan’s Transition Finance – A Roadmap For UK-Japan Collaboration On Net Zero
The UK and Japan may be thousands of miles apart, but both economies share the complex challenge of decarbonising mature, diversified industrial bases. Japan’s business community increasingly …
How Japan’s election outcome muddles the BOJ’s policy path
Japan’s election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated while potentially prolonged political paralysis and a global trade war …
How did a right-wing populist party that began on YouTube win big in Japan’s recent election?
Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.” …
Japan’s ruling coalition gov’t loses majority in Upper House
Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and his Liberal Democratic Party were projected to lose their majority coalition government in Japan’s Upper House of Parliament on Monday.
In Japan, Anti-Establishment Parties Resonate With Young Voters
The success of new political parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite highlights the frustrations of many working-age people in Japan.
Japan Launches Task Force To Deal With Foreign Nationals
The Japanese government said it is responding to “crimes and nuisances committed by some foreigners and inappropriate use of various systems.”
Populism and polarisation come to Japan
Koeda Yoshiyuki, a 51-year-old supporter, called Sanseito “the only party that can truly tackle the big problems Japan faces today”. Sanseito relied on social media, especially YouTube, to reach voters disheartened with politics-as-usual.
Japan firm offers bear hunting insurance to local gov’ts as law broadens rifle use
As bear-related injuries rise in Japan, an insurance company is offering to cover local governments for damages related to wildlife control o･･･ …
China’s Moves Against 3 Foreigners Stoke Anxiety
A Wells Fargo banker and a U.S. government employee were blocked from leaving and a Japanese pharmaceutical executive was imprisoned, even as Beijing tries to court overseas investors.