China’s rare-earth dominance reveals the strengths and vulnerabilities of its distinctive political economy — and offers ...

Editor's note: The ongoing discussions about Japan's "Lost Decades," a period of prolonged economic stagnation spanning 30 years, have sparked debates on whether Japan indeed lost momentum for three ...

In Japan, you usually obtain a driver’s license by taking lessons at a private driving school which exempts you from a practical driving test at a police facility. After finishing the course, you take ...

Japan’s economic story is a rollercoaster of triumph and cautionary tales. From the ashes of World War II to global dominance in the 1980s, and then a prolonged stagnation, Japan’s trajectory offers ...

MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University / Director, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study) Governance structural reform is currently receiving ...

Here's a number that might make you put down that second donut: In the United States, around 40 percent of all adults are considered obese. In Japan, the obesity rate is only one-tenth of that. We're ...

IN the middle of the 19th century Japan was an ordinary but isolated nation. Around that time, Japan and China had to wage wars against the advanced and strongly armed West, which wanted entry to the ...