Japan, second only to the United States in economic heft, is heading deeper and deeper into trouble. Yesterday brought a blizzard of bad news that erased any last hopes that Asia's biggest economy ...

Talk of deflation for China is well wide of the mark, and obsessing over historical growth rates misses the point that 5% growth is sustainable and about the right pace of growth for an economy of ...

Combine Japanese cultural tendencies toward formality, politesse, and indirection with the usual central banker’s love of opacity and econo-jargon, and you’d expect that a meeting with the deputy ...

In broad strokes, the parallels are alarming. After a long boom, the Japanese economy in the 1990s, as America’s today, was jolted by a sharp plunge in the real estate market. In Tokyo, the government ...

A paper documenting several examples of recent protests by students and university employees on campuses in Japan following a period of privatisations and a move towards short term contracts.

Japan was the prime threat to the US's economic dominance in the 1980s, but then things went wrong. Now, economists see worrying similarities between China in the 2020s and Japan in the 1990s. China ...

China's sputtering growth and property market hurdles have led to comparisons with Japan's troubles in the 1990s. JPMorgan strategists said China risks "Japanification" if it doesn't stabilize its ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Twenty-five years ago, I heard a clutch of top American financial officials, including Timothy Geithner and ...