Japan has been battling sluggish growth, mounting public debt and a rapidly ageing workforce.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pushed through a record supplemental budget and is proposing tax cuts, raising questions about ...

Japan raised its second-quarter GDP estimate because households spent more and businesses kept investing, showing that domestic demand is stronger than expected. The Cabinet Office had earlier ...

Japan’s GDP expanded 0.5% q/q in Q2 2025, beating a flash estimate of 0.3% and picking up from an upwardly revised 0.1% in Q1, marking the fifth straight quarterly growth. Japan’s economy grew by 2.2% ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's economy probably grew marginally in April-June due to resilient consumption and net exports, managing to avoid a technical recession, or two straight quarters of contraction, ...

Japan's GDP in Q1 2025 was flat, a better performance than the initial 0.2% contraction estimate, though significantly slower than Q4's 0.6% growth. Net trade surprisingly boosted GDP by 0.4 ...

The Japanese economy suffered a surprising contraction in the first quarter of 2025, with analysts citing tariff stress as a main cause. Gross domestic product fell 0.2% in the first quarter, versus ...

TOKYO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Japan's economy is expected to have returned to growth in the final three months of 2025, thanks to vigorous corporate investment and resilient consumption, a Reuters poll ...

TOKYO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Japan's economy contracted faster than initially estimated in the three months through September, primarily due to new data dragging down capital spending figures, though ...

(RTTNews) - Japan will on Friday release preliminary Q1 numbers for gross domestic product, highlighting a modest day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. GDP is expected to slip 0.1 percent on quarter ...