Japan’s drowning in debt, its politics are in chaos and it needs its money back. And when your biggest lender starts heading for the exits, it’s time to pay attention.

Japan’s massive property bubble, over 50 percent larger than America’s 2000–07 bubble, burst in 1990, 18 years before America’s less-extended real estate bubble burst in 2008, ushering in ...

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about opening up the Japanese market to cars from American automakers, which is ...

In this way, they say, Asia’s coming energy transformation can be tied to Japan’s—and thereby the West’s. Like America, Japan is hawkish, as it grasps the existential threat China poses.

The assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo last month shocked the world. In the eyes of many Americans, Abe had come to represent a confident and proactive Japan, overcoming decades ...

Recently, the US and Japan released the Interim Report on the Revision of the Guidelines for US-Japan Defense Cooperation (PDF). The revision’s the first since 1997 and occurs in the context of ...

Take-private deals in Japan are likely to hit a record high this year, exceeding the $40.3 billion total racked up in 2023, ...

Japan-hands in America say he does not seem to understand that the 54,000 American troops in Japan are there to defend not just Japan, but also American primacy in the region.

America shouldn’t treat China the same way it treated Japan back in the 1980s. When it comes to trade disputes, that is. It won’t work, and it could place the world trade and financial system ...

Why the Japan-America Alliance Works Sep 4, 2018 8 min read COMMENTARY BY James Jay Carafano @JJCarafano ...

America’s decision to finally recognize the failure of the treaty means that the U.S.-Japan alliance can now consider a new defense agenda that aims to strengthen the alliance and bolster the military ...

Actually I wrote about how America was threatening itself by failing to meet the competitive challenges of Japan’s export-led growth strategy.