Gross domestic product rose at an annualised rate of 2.2% in the three months to September, the third consecutive quarter of expansion.
Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) launched a new near-billion U.S. dollar destroyer on Wednesday in Nagasaki Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan, in spite of the pacifist bindings of its constitution and a stagnant economy ill-financed for such extrinsic military hardware.
Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture and surrounding areas has marked six months Friday since a powerful earthquake struck the region, leaving hundreds of thousands of people displaced.
Large Japanese manufacturers' business sentiment in September remained unchanged from the last quarter, as concerns continue about exports as the yen has remained firm and on wider concerns following Britain's decision to leave the European Union, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said Monday.
The yen slipped to a one-week low against the dollar on Wednesday, after a report said the Bank of Japan is considering further monetary easing steps, including taking interest rates deeper into negative territory.
Japan logged a current account surplus in July for the 25th straight month, owing to the yen's appreciation and lower costs for crude oil imports, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.
Budget requests by Japan's central government offices for fiscal 2017 amounted to some 101.47 trillion yen (983 billion U.S. dollars), Japan's financial ministry said on Tuesday.
Japan's Ministry of Defense will submit to parliament on Wednesday a record-high budget request for the fiscal year 2017, marking the fifth annual increase since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe retook office in 2012.
The Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday approved the delay of a planned hike of the nation's consumption by two and a half years.
Japan's exports in July suffered their sharpest monthly fall in seven years, data showed Thursday, as a surging yen clouds the country's trade picture, with shipments of cars, ships and steel all tumbling.
Japan's economy grew at a slower-than-forecast 0.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, as the recovery was sapped by weaker exports and business investment, the government said Monday.
Asian markets mostly rose on Tuesday (Aug 9) as fresh Chinese data provided signs of improving conditions for the world's second largest economy.
Toyota Motor Corp. reported Thursday a 14.5 percent drop in profit for the fiscal first quarter as sales fell and a strong yen slashed earnings for the Japanese automaker.
The Japanese cabinet approved an economic stimulus package worth 28.1 trillion yen (274 billion U.S. dollars) on Tuesday to support Japan's sluggish economy in the wake of Britain's decision to leave the European Union.
Japanese electronics maker Panasonic announced on Friday a slump of 63.5 percent in its April-June group net profit, which once again shows that Japan's traditional electronics firms are facing a difficult time.
The International Monetary Fund said the yen’s surge this year has brought the Japanese currency closer to its fair value, in an assessment that contrasts with expressions of concern by the country’s policy makers about the exchange rate.
Confidence at Japanese manufacturers held steady in July but was expected to worsen to zero in the next three months, a Reuters poll found, as Britain's vote to exit the European Union further clouded the outlook for Japan's export-reliant economy.
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