Tokyo, May 2025 — In a dramatic echo of the past, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has declared that Japan’s financial situation is now worse than Greece’s at the height of its crisis ...

Japan's Finance Minister Naoto Kan warned that the economy continued to be in a deflationary state. Camera maker Canon declined 2.7 percent, while Nintendo, a maker of game consoles that gets a ...

The No. 18 district has traditionally been a liberal stronghold of Naoto Kan, a former prime minister and senior member of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. The LDP has ...

Prime Minister Naoto Kan now faces a long list of daunting problems: a rapidly aging and shrinking population, persistently weak domestic demand, deflation, a strong yen and slowing growth in key ...

One might be excused for thinking last week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference anticlimactic, for its most important result was a rather modest pledge not to adopt new forms of ...

The National Weather Service in Wichita, Kan., warned that severe thunderstorms were likely on Monday afternoon and evening, primarily along and east of Interstate 135. Midwest Energy Inc., an ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting works by Tokyo-based Naoto Fukasawa, one of today’s most influential designers. The exhibition celebrates Fukasawa’s career over the past 25 years.

† Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Organic Solids and Laboratory of New Materials Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing, ...