Though nearly a decade apart, Japan and the U.S. both experienced severe stock market and real estate bubbles. Each bubble has its own similarities, but certain structural differences also exist in ...

The yakuza boss is quoted as saying that $20,000 was all it cost to rent the space, buy the materials — cheap, dried tapioca balls and ingredients for milk tea — and get the shop up and running, ...

Japan's economy is a potential model for how many developed markets could end up over the next decade or two. The Bank of Japan's balance sheet and money supply are enormous compared to the size of ...

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index surged Thursday past the record it set in 1989 before its financial bubble burst, ushering in an era of faltering growth. The index closed Thursday at 39,098.68, up ...

In the 1990's, Japan's economy experienced what economists now refer to as "the Lost Decade", all driven by a property and ...

STORY: Japanese stocks hit a record high on Thursday. The moment drew a spontaneous round of applause on the trading floor at Nomura in Tokyo. Decades on from Japan’s bubble era economy, the Nikkei ...

When a Chilean woman posted a video on Instagram of herself doing chin-ups on a sacred torii gate at a Japanese shrine, the backlash was almost immediate. For many in Japan this was just the latest ...

Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, whose “Plan 75” earned a Camera d’Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival, is back on the Croisette with competition title “Renoir,” a coming-of-age ...

Who hasn’t spent the better part of an hour popping bubble wrap, at age 20? Exactly. The Japanese have come up with a toy that constantly fills and re-fills bubbles in a sheet of bubble wrap. No doubt ...