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Japan remained at 118th among 148 countries in the gender gap rankings in 2025, still worst among the Group of Seven nations, ...
Regional consumer prices excluding Japan slowed to about 1.5 per cent in April, the lowest level since Q1 2021. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In April, regional consumer prices on a simple average basis excluding Japan slowed to about 1.5%, the lowest level since the ...
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to batter Japan’s vital auto industry and derail the country’s long-standing ...
Japan's business sentiment worsened in April-June for the first time in five quarters, a government survey showed on Thursday ...
California's "nominal GDP grew at a rate of 6% in 2024, outpacing the U.S.’ 5.3% rate, China’s 2.6% rate and Germany’s 2.9% rate” ...
Across 24 nations, a 49% median view the U.S. favorably, while an identical share do not. People are also roughly split on ...
Japan's government reiterated its warning on the risks from U.S. tariffs on economic growth, saying in a monthly report on ...
Citing “a substantial rise in trade barriers’’ but without mentioning Trump by name, the 189-country lender predicted that ...
For Japan and many other countries, the vulnerability that comes with relying on U.S. markets has become startlingly clear.
US exceptionalism – the belief that the US and its economy is different from and superior to other nations – is coming under ...