Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda scrapped the world’s last negative interest rate and its massive stimulus program a year ago, ...

Together, these studies present a compelling and consistent story of the Japanese economy. Financial system problems, largely triggered by the bursting of the asset price bubble in the early 1990s, ...

The "lost decade" is a term popularly used to describe the Japanese economy of the 1990s, the period following the bursting of the country's economic bubble. Yet even after the problems of ...

Why did the slump continue for so long? Looking back at the Japanese economy since the bursting of the bubble economy, we will examine the debate that unfolded and the policies that were implemented ...

Japan’s gross domestic product ... When the late 1980s asset-inflated economic bubble burst, companies downsized operations by slashing payrolls and selling off idle assets.

But now, following the “lost three decades” since the bursting of the bubble economy, Japanese labor unions are demanding record-level hikes in the annual spring wage negotiations. According ...

Japan experienced average annual growth of more than 10 percent through the so-called "Izanagi Keiki." Then, during the late 1980s through to 1991, the bubble economy saw average growth of 5 percent.

A bubble had formed ... some say Bernanke helped to avoid deflation and the economic stagnation that had plagued Japan for so long. The U.S. economy was jump-started again by the middle of ...

TOKYO — Japan’s has cut its estimate for its economic growth in the last quarter of the year to a 2.2% annual pace from 2.8% as consumer spending hit demand. The Cabinet Office said Tuesday ...

In this episode we take a look at the formation and bursting of the great Japanese bubble and the ripple effects that can still be seen today. Wisconsin clerk who failed to count almost 200 ...