Editor's note: The ongoing discussions about Japan's "Lost Decades," a period of prolonged economic stagnation spanning 30 years, have sparked debates on whether Japan indeed lost momentum for three ...

Wandering the streets of Tokyo’s Roppongi district on a wet night, you know where film director Ridley Scott got the inspiration for his dystopian Los Angeles in Blade Runner. Multicolored neon; ...

Japan is not clamoring for the lessons of the Nazi Holocaust to be taught to its children, but that is the passion of Fumiko Ishioka. She is the sole reason that the life and death of Hana Brady, a 13 ...

TOKYO — The face masks, thick dark haze and pollution warnings plaguing residents of China’s capital this week once were a fact of life for people living in Japan’s biggest industrial cities. Japanese ...

Japan’s economic story is a rollercoaster of triumph and cautionary tales. From the ashes of World War II to global dominance in the 1980s, and then a prolonged stagnation, Japan’s trajectory offers ...

An aerial view of Oshima-Mura, Japan, after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the area in March 2011. (TNS) — In the wake of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, ...

Policy decisions by central banks – such as an accommodative monetary policy which is designed to stimulate economic growth by lowering short-term interest rates to make borrowing money less expensive ...

There are "innovators" such as those who figure out a new topping for ice cream and then there are major innovators, who help substantially change entire fields and the world for the better. Each year ...

Learn how Japan's real estate crisis led to the Lost Decade and discover the economic lessons that can guide better financial decisions today.

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