Oversized supplementary budgets, symbolic tax measures and broad transfers cannot substitute for clarity and coherence.

In July, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby demanded that Japan clarify the extent of its involvement in a potential U.S.-China war over Taiwan. Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s newly elected ...

Japan’s public debt stands at over 250 per cent of GDP, far surpassing the levels in the United States, yet political and public complacency persists in the absence of a fiscal crisis. Amid cost of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s military buildup and spending and complete an early upgrade of ...

Japanese society has been internationalizing at an accelerated rate in recent years, with not only the numbers of foreign tourists and short-term students in the country reaching record highs but also ...

For the past decade, Japan’s foreign policy has been organized around a strategic purpose: promote and defend the international rules-based order. Former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and his successors, ...

In July, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby demanded that Japan clarify the extent of its involvement in a potential U.S.-China war over Taiwan. Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s newly elected ...