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Almost overnight, Japan has become an extraordinary, and somewhat mysterious, success story in its efforts to contain the coronavirus.
Japan’s government agreed on Friday to spend $490 billion on stimulus measures, a move by its prime minister to boost an economy battered by coronavirus restrictions and by a supply chain crunch ...
Japan's prime minister said on Wednesday that the government had overstated the value of some construction orders received from builders for years, in a blow to the credibility of official ...
A growing economy, rising tourism and a political system that allows for dissent—what's not to like? That seems to be the mood among foreign investors looking at Japan these days as stock ...
The 2021 World Digital Competitiveness Ranking put Japan at 28 out of 64 countries ranked. Manual processes contributed to Japan's struggle to support citizens during Covid.
Today, Japan is ranked fifth globally in overall military power after the U.S., Russia, China and India, and its defense budget ranked sixth in the 2021 ranking of 140 countries by the Global ...
Just one U.S. release squeaked into Japan's top-ten list for 2021 — Universal's 'F9: The Fast Saga' — as imported blockbusters claimed just 21 percent of the market.
That may boost Japan’s baseline 2021 defense budget of around 5.34 trillion yen ($47 billion) to the equivalent of $53.8 billion, increasing defense spending to account for 1.3% of Japanese GDP.
Japan's imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) fell 0.2% in 2021 to 74.32 million tonnes, giving up the world's largest buyer spot to China which increased its imports of the super-chilled fuel by ...