Investing in Japan

Moves by Takeda and Toshiba raise the prospect of companies beginning to take advantage of the strong yen and rock-bottom interest rates to buy overseas growth

Despite persistent unease over their personal finances, consumers remain the backbone of the economy, and data to be released this week will show the state of their spending.

Japan, China and South Korea pledged to speed up laying the ground work for a possible three-way free trade pact, in a step to revitalize discussions on the issue in light of the economic damage from the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck...

Japan, seeking to promote renewable energy as it struggles with the world's worst nuclear crisis in decades, may this week announce a plan to make solar panels compulsory on the roofs of all new buildings by 2030, the Nikkei newspaper said on Sunday.

Japanese Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano said on Sunday the government may need to spend 10 trillion yen to 15 trillion yen ($184 billion) for reconstruction from the devastating earthquake that hit the country's northeast in March.

In a choreographed act of contrition, Masataka Shimizu, the president of Tokyo Electric Power, bowed deeply and resigned to take responsibility for the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.