Hiroki Iwabuchi is slouched over a bowl of noodles in his pool-table-size apartment, peering at the camera that’s filming him. He slurps absently for awhile, and then a friend joins him—he’s come to ...

Japan, second only to the United States in economic heft, is heading deeper and deeper into trouble. Yesterday brought a blizzard of bad news that erased any last hopes that Asia's biggest economy ...

Combine Japanese cultural tendencies toward formality, politesse, and indirection with the usual central banker’s love of opacity and econo-jargon, and you’d expect that a meeting with the deputy ...

Radical shifts in the world economy and strategic alignments will thrust Japan into a leadership role in the 1990s. But are we equal to the task? Industrial prowess won`t solve the pressing global ...

An urban explorer recently documented a largely abandoned, yet remarkably well-preserved, Japanese resort town. Kinugawa Onsen, located in Nikkō, a city in central Japan's Tochigi Prefecture, was once ...

Talk of deflation for China is well wide of the mark, and obsessing over historical growth rates misses the point that 5% growth is sustainable and about the right pace of growth for an economy of ...

Japanese sports cars from the 1980s to the 1990s have become popular worldwide, and are increasingly catching the eyes of collectors, particularly in the United States. One of the background drivers ...

In broad strokes, the parallels are alarming. After a long boom, the Japanese economy in the 1990s, as America’s today, was jolted by a sharp plunge in the real estate market. In Tokyo, the government ...