TOKYO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Japan's annual bond issuance will likely ⁠surge ⁠28% three years from now due to ⁠rising debt-financing costs, a finance ministry estimate reviewed by Reuters showed on ...

TOKYO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Japan's government plans to introduce additional tax ‌breaks to spur corporate investment, the Nikkei ‌business daily reported on Thursday - a move which comes despite ...

TOKYO, May 27 (Reuters) - The markets will be closely watching an auction of Japan's longest tenor bonds on Wednesday to see if debt investors will continue to put up with the worsening finances of ...

Japan’s national debt looks enormous on paper, but the full story is far more complicated than most people realize. Much of ...

Peter St. Onge is a senior economist for The Heritage Foundation's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from ...

Japan could use a wake-up call over its mountain of debt through credit rating firms warning of the potential for cuts to sovereign bond ratings, according to a government advisor. “Recent fiscal ...

Japan investors pulled $29.6 billion out of U.S. government-linked debt in the first quarter of 2026, the country’s biggest ...

The global bond market is approaching a stress point driven by concentrated debt maturities and rising refinancing costs rather than a single macro shock. Japan sits at the center of this dynamic as ...

The jump in yields on Japan’s long-maturity bonds has gone too far, according to RBC BlueBay Asset Management, which has initiated a long position in the battered securities. A rout in Japanese ...

A display shows long-term bond market interest rates in Tokyo on Nov. 18. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images) Japan has an aging population, and the government has enormous transfer programs that ...