Daishiro Yamagiwa asked leaders of Japan's three major business lobby groups to prepare business continuity plans centered on telework in response to omicron.

Rintaro Tamaki, a former Finance Ministry official, says a "price signal" would help the government change people's mindset on green issues.

The confidence index of workers with jobs sensitive to economic trends rose from November, but fell below the boom-or-bust line when looking ahead.

While Japan's economy remains in a "severe" situation, the nine areas reported that economic conditions had been "picking up" or had shown "signs of a ...

The trade balance declined for the fourth straight month as high energy prices continued, the Finance Ministry said.

Trade minister Koichi Hagiuda visited Singapore and met his counterpart during a six-day tour of Southeast Asian nations.

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang said Wednesday it has exclusively launched the product lines of Nitori, Japan’s largest furniture and household goods brand. According to the company, Coupang will directly import Nitori products so that c

Sake that pairs well with foreign cuisine and custom-made drinks are expected to hit the shelves soon thanks the initiative.

Driven by concerns about the impact to their economies which depend on coal-fired power generation, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines had called for the ...

Japan has been relatively slow to embrace EVs, partly due to a lack of charging stations, parking space and sufficient subsidies as the vehicles tend ...

Industry minister Koichi Hagiuda asked that Jakarta understand the need to resolve the issue, saying Japanese companies have been bewildered by the ban.

The chairman of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association expressed hopes that cooperation would positively impact the resilience of both Taiwan and Japan's supply chains.

A COROLLARY OF Leviathan’s growth is rising bureaucracy. Once a regulator is created, it is never defunded. As the state becomes more involved in citizens’ lives and agencies expand, so do rulebooks. And a lot of their dos and don’ts apply to business. Patrick McLaughlin of the Mercatus Centre at George ...

AS WITH ALL history, capitalism’s may not repeat but it does rhyme. Periods of freer enterprise give way to ones with a more meddlesome state. When change comes, it is after crisis, occasionally exogenous (war, pandemic), at other times provoked by excesses (financial crash, depression, stagflation). Yet the metre is ...

The Philippines' move follows similar requests from other Asian governments such as Japan and South Korea.

Milk sales in 2021 fell from the previous year, reflecting weak demand from eateries amid the pandemic crisis.

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), through its subsidiary, the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR), and in partnership with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is set to launch iHatch, a startup incubation programme aimed at increasing the number of innovation-driven enterprises by Nigerian youths. This was ...

NTT Thailand, the local operating unit of the Japan-based technology firm, expects continued strong growth for its business this year, driven by an upsurge in cloud service usage and digital transformation pursued by enterprises.

Sales failed to reach 5 million units for the second straight year due chiefly to persistent supply chain bottlenecks, industry sources said.

The price of the most popular bluefin tuna in a New Year's auction fell below ¥20 million for the first time in six years.