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Central banks to lawmakers: You try growing this economy
Power of monetary policy to drive global growth is nearing its limit. Further progress depends on government leaders.
Power of monetary policy to drive global growth is nearing its limit. Further progress depends on government leaders.
MGM Resorts has scouted the world's biggest fish market as a potential site for the casino resort it wants to build in Japan.
Only one female executive made it to the top-earner list of Japan's Nikkei 225 companies last year.
Michael Fitzgerald is one of the best Kiwi defenders on the world stage - but currently has more chance of turning out for Japan than NZ.
Japan's program of monetary stimulus, fiscal stimulus, and structural reforms hasn't created as much growth as proponents hoped it would.
New Zealand coffee roasting company Allpress Espresso has cut the ribbon on a new Japanese operation in Tokyo.
The old Sony factory in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture is up and running again. But this time it's an indoor farm that is the largest of its kind.
The Japanese consumer lender at the centre of a scandal over loans to gangsters that engulfed Mizuho Financial Group sold debt at about a fifth of the premium global companies pay, as investors search for yield.
Companies in Japan are among the world's most vulnerable to cyber attacks, and threats against state entities have more than doubled since 2010 to one every 30 seconds.
The pachinko industry in Japan wants casinos, driven by attendance that has sunk more than 60 per cent since the mid-90s and an uncertain legal status.
When I was 16 - that's (ahem) 25 years ago now, right before Japan spiralled into economic stagnation - I stayed a year with a Japanese family as an AFS exchange student.
Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, must have noticed a striking difference between New Zealand and Australia when he visited the countries on consecutive days this week.
Shinzo Abe didn't quite throw his weight around when he met John Key at Government House in Auckland this week.
It may have been a little early for wine, but Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, was on a tight schedule in Auckland so lunch at Villa Maria winery started about 11.45am.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is unabashed by criticism of Japan's role in the Trans Pacific Partnership trade negotiations.
Thousands of flights in Japan could be cancelled this summer as the country's rapidly ageing population leads to a nationwide shortage of airline pilots.
Hayden Donnell discovers the dangers - and exhilaration - of Sapporo Beer Garden.
Can a Kiwi cyclist out-sprint a hungry brown bear? In Japan Victoria Clark fixates on this point while pedalling through Hokkaido's forests. She need not have worried.
Rugby players from a top school have been caught shoplifting at a world championship in Japan.
An extremely rare female deep-water megamouth shark has been caught off the coast of Shizuoka in Japan, in what is believed to be only the 58th known sighting of the animal on record.
This resort in Hokkaido prefecture, 1000km north of Tokyo, gets enough snow to allow skiing for seven months of the year.
For further information see 360niseko.com.
New Zealand has a rival for the world's most breathtaking landscapes, writes Hayden Donnell, after taking in the view from Mt Annupuri during a skiing trip to the resort of Niseko on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Australia is on track to notch what experts are calling an "Asia Inc" trade trifecta.
Japan, the world's third-biggest economy, has a long and notorious history of protectionism.
Japan expects its whaling programme in the Southern Ocean will resume next year, court documents indicate.
Much hangs on whether the Japanese Government sides with its future-focused Foreign Ministry or its inwards-looking pro-whaling fisheries agency, writes John Armstrong.