Japan's private sector economy continued to grow in September, extending the sequence of expansion that commenced at the start of 2023. Slower service sector growth, attributed in part to a renewed ...

US-based General Atlantic has announced a $96m (Y14.6bn) strategic minority investment in SmartHR, a Japanese cloud-native human resources (HR) management platform. The stake in the Japanese company ...

General Atlantic completed its first growth equity investment in Japan and plans to do more, citing an increase in entrepreneurship in a country long considered a backwater for startups. The New ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to use her first stimulus package to jump-start the economy and initiate a new growth strategy through investment in key industries. A panel tasked to form ...

The Bank of Japan predicted growth of just 0.5 percent, cutting its previous forecast in half, and decided against another hike in interest rates. By River Akira Davis and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from ...