In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Japanese Minister of Finance Katsunobu Kato mentioned that Japan had yet to ...

The second factor was the onset of a recession in Japan in March of 2000 ... internet players that met their end when the tech bubble burst or soon after. What defines a recession varies depending ...

Americans were boycotting goods from an economy reaching collapse. Japan’s asset-price bubble burst in 1992, marking the beginning of the country’s “lost decade.” Instead, a different East ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda scrapped the world’s last negative interest rate and its massive stimulus program a year ago, ...

Higher rates burst the bubble in Japan, too. The first interest rate hike came in March 1989; in December of that year, the Nikkei 225 peaked, and the bubble popped. And the Nifty Fifty bubble met ...

which should accompany policy normalisation Japan's economy has stuck to stagnation with effectively no nominal GDP growth in past three decades after the asset price bubble burst in the early 1990s.

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. ...