The Japanese stock market has reached all-time highs despite the country being in a recession. The three main sources of fiscal flows in Japan are federal government spending, the current account ...

Japan recently slipped into a recession, shedding its status as the world’s third-largest economy in the process. In theory, that should have weighed on Japanese equities and related exchange traded ...

Japan’s economy expanded at an annualized clip of 0.4% in October to December from the previous quarter, better than the initial estimate for a 0.4% contraction, government data showed on Monday. The ...

Japan’s economy always seems to surprise – unfortunately, on the downside – and it has done so once again in the wake of the devastating quake and tsunami that hit the northeast coast on March 11. GDP ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy returned to growth in the second quarter, pulling out of its longest recession since World War Two, but analysts warned of a rocky road ahead as the nascent recovery ...

Japan’s economy returned to growth in Q4 of 2023, avoiding a technical recession and indicating that the Bank of Japan could potentially begin interest rate hikes. The country’s GDP expanded 0.4% and ...

Japan's economy officially entered into a recession in the third quarter. Japan said that its economy contracted 0.8 percent (on an annualized basis) in the third quarter after declining 0.7 percent ...

March 11 (UPI) --Strong capital investment helped the Japanese economy grow by 0.4% in the October-December period compared with the same period the previous year, revised government figures out ...

TOKYO--Revised data confirmed that Japan's economy shrank in the first quarter, solidifying the risk of a technical recession. Real gross domestic product contracted 0.2% on an annualized basis in the ...

TOKYO, Nov 17, 2008 (AFP) - Japan's economy, the second largest in the world, has entered its first recession in seven years as the global financial crisis batters exports and business investment, ...

You may not lose your sleep over the recession in the UK or Japan, but you could scratch your head. [iStockphoto] The word "recession" is rarely used in Kenya. Instead, the term "bad economy" or ...