Christopher Wood has a track record of spotting speculative bubbles. He called the dotcom boom, Japan’s credit bubble, and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...