Bank worries about waning household purchasing power amid high rice, other food items prices, inflation, while wage hikes ...

Japan's GDP expanded 0.4% in the fourth quarter compared with a year earlier. Provisional data last month had showed GDP contracting 0.4%. Quarter-on-quarter, Japan GDP expanded 0.1% in the fourth ...

TOKYO--Revised data confirmed that Japan's economy shrank in the first quarter, solidifying the risk of a technical recession. Real gross domestic product contracted 0.2% on an annualized basis in ...

Japan's exports in June contracted 0.5% year over year, extending the 1.7% drop seen in May as deliveries continued to decline for the second straight month. Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, ...

Japan’s economy always seems to surprise – unfortunately, on the downside – and it has done so once again in the wake of the devastating quake and tsunami that hit the northeast coast on March 11.

Japan's economy officially entered into a recession in the third quarter. Japan said that its economy contracted 0.8 percent (on an annualized basis) in the third quarter after declining 0.7 ...

You may not lose your sleep over the recession in the UK or Japan, but you could scratch your head. [iStockphoto] The word "recession" is rarely used in Kenya. Instead, the term "bad economy" or ...