The Japanese stock market has reached all-time highs despite the country being in a recession. The three main sources of fiscal flows in Japan are federal government spending, the current account ...

Japan’s economy always seems to surprise – unfortunately, on the downside – and it has done so once again in the wake of the devastating quake and tsunami that hit the northeast coast on March 11. GDP ...

Japan's economy managed to grow in the fourth quarter of last year, averting a recession, according to revised government data released Monday that had previously shown a contraction. Real gross ...

Japan recently slipped into a recession, shedding its status as the world’s third-largest economy in the process. In theory, that should have weighed on Japanese equities and related exchange traded ...

Japan’s economy expanded at an annualized clip of 0.4% in October to December from the previous quarter, better than the initial estimate for a 0.4% contraction, government data showed on Monday. The ...

March 11 (UPI) --Strong capital investment helped the Japanese economy grow by 0.4% in the October-December period compared with the same period the previous year, revised government figures out ...

TOKYO--Revised data confirmed that Japan's economy shrank in the first quarter, solidifying the risk of a technical recession. Real gross domestic product contracted 0.2% on an annualized basis in the ...

You may not lose your sleep over the recession in the UK or Japan, but you could scratch your head. [iStockphoto] The word "recession" is rarely used in Kenya. Instead, the term "bad economy" or ...

TOKYO, Nov 17, 2008 (AFP) - Japan's economy, the second largest in the world, has entered its first recession in seven years as the global financial crisis batters exports and business investment, ...