Volatility has become the new norm in Washington as the president heads to Japan, where he will reassure world leaders that the debt ceiling showdown will not upend the global economy.

President Joe Biden's departure Wednesday to the G7 in Japan was meant to launch a geostrategic masterclass on rallying the world's democracies against China. Instead, he will limp into an abruptly truncated journey facing concerns that the US debt ceiling row is about to tear up the global economy.

The government has started levying the consumption tax on businesses that purchased the products and illegally resold them, as well as the foreign nationals involved.

The G7 plans to launch a partnership scheme to diversify supply chains this year, ministers from the group said Saturday following finance talks in Japan ahead of a major summit next week.    

The G7 plans to launch a partnership scheme to diversify supply chains this year, the group's finance ministers said Saturday following talks in Japan ahead of a major summit next week.

Brazilian Minister of Finance Fernando Haddad is in Japan to attend the G7 meeting, which brings together the world's leading economies. In the bilateral meeting with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the minister asked for help in the bailout of Argentina. "We are very concerned about what is happening to ...

NIIGATA, Japan: Political brinkmanship over raising the US debt ceiling risks "serious economic costs" even without the "catastrophe" of a default, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Thursday at G7 finance talks in Japan.

The goods trade deficit grow nearly twelvefold during the year, while a weak yen and rising energy prices inflated the cost of imports.

TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp on Wednesday said it expects operating profit to climb 10% this business year, with a five-fold jump in pure electric vehicle (EV) sales amid an easing in global supply chain disruption from a shortage of chips.

Japan's biggest business lobby will use the "future partnership fund" for joint projects with its South Korean counterpart, the Federation of Korean Industries.

According to Hideo Kumano, executive chief economist at the Dai-ichi Life Research Institute, around ¥2.6 trillion will come from a revival of inbound tourism.

The French investment bank hired Yuichi Akai to expand its Japan business and grow its team in the country.

Some policy board members said they saw some "positive signs" emerging in Japan that suggested the economy was making progress toward achieving the BOJ's 2% ...

KPA has defended its move to lock out an unnamed bidder from the tender process. The finalists of the multi-billion tender include rival Japanese contractors.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with the chiefs of South Korea’s six major business lobby groups to reaffirm their shared goal of bolstering industrial ties on Monday. Attending the closed-door meeting on the second day of his two-day

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida confirmed Japan is in the process of reinstating South Korea to its “white list” of trusted trading partners amid joint efforts to improve bilateral economic

South Korea's imports of Japanese beer more than doubled on-year in the January-March period, data showed Sunday, marking the highest amount since Tokyo's export curbs against the Asian neighbor in 2019. Japanese beer imports came to $6.62

[AIM] Maputo -- The Japanese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Kenji Yamada, believes it is important for Mozambique to increase investment in human resources in order to catapult the growth of the national economy.

[GhanaToday] Japan has said it will corporate with Ghana for the speedy implementation of phase II of the Tema-motorway roundabout project, which links major highways, including the Abidjan-Lagos corridor road, which is critical for the development of the West Africa Economic Integration.

The airline has previously run its cargo business using space on passenger flights and chartering other companies’ freighters.