Japan
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Leaders
Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well
Even as interest costs mount, politicians promise handouts
Finance & economics
Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic
Politicians are reaching for increasingly extreme measures
Finance & economics
Japan’s debts are shrinking. Its troubles may be only starting
Politicians have a yen for handouts
Asia
Trump, trade and troops: South Korea’s nightmare
Amid the tariff war, an interview with the acting president
Asia
Japan faces a reckoning over rice
A crisis over its staple reveals cracks in the country’s food system
Asia
How a year of tremor and terror transformed Japan
Two disasters in 1995 captured the spirit of the country’s lost decades
Asia
Japanese people are starting to quit their jobs
After decades of inertia, workers are now on the move. Why?
Asia
Donald Trump and Japan’s Ishiba Shigeru make for an odd couple
But shared interests can help keep America and Japan close