Japan wants a pharma boom. It needs a new strategy.
Japan wants pharmaceuticals and advanced medicine to drive its next phase of economic growth. But achieving that goal…
Furore over Albanese’s melons joke forces Japan into drama it wanted to avoid
Japan’s Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has commented on several issues in the past 48 hours: a rocket launch,…
Kishida sees growth strategy as game changer for yen
Joint U.S.-Japan intervention has supported the yen for now, but isn’t a game-changer for the currency or the…
Japan wants 60 million tourists, but China isn’t sending them
Japan has found a new export industry and it doesn’t come off an assembly line. It arrives by…
Anthony Albanese fronts media after ‘shag’ and ‘melons’ scandal involving Kylie Minogue and Japanese PM
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not personally apologised for his highly controversial comments about the Japanese PM’s “melons”.…
Japan mulls delaying minimum wage hike
The government is considering delaying its goal of raising the country’s average minimum hourly wages to ¥1,500 (about…
Japan is quintupling entry visa fees for visitors, but which tourists will be affected?
Japan will quintuple entry visa fees starting from July 1, but most Australian tourists will not be impacted. …
Takaichi acknowledges proposed cut of consumption tax on food to 1%
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has stopped short of endorsing a ruling and opposition party council chair’s proposal to…
Consumption tax cut on groceries could do more harm than good
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pushing for a cut in the consumption tax on groceries to help Japanese…
Japan feels the squeeze as China’s rare earth magnet exports only partly recover
China’s exports of rare earth permanent magnets to Japan slightly rebounded in April after slumping the previous month,…
Exclusive-Japan’s extra budget to include funding from fresh debt, source says
By Tamiyuki Kihara and Leika Kihara TOKYO, May 18 (Reuters) – Japan’s government is likely to issue fresh…
Australia and Japan sign agreements on energy, defence and critical minerals
Australia and Japan have signed multiple new agreements to bolster cooperation on energy, defence and critical minerals, while…