From defense spending to demographic decline, Japan’s tax reform attempts to address pressing national issues.

Japan’s government faces pressure to curtail debt-fueled spending that some argue has staved off populist waves.

The markets will be closely watching an auction of Japan's longest tenor bonds on Wednesday to see if debt investors will ...

In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck and Nagasaki is the place to find them. They are known as “omagari neko (bent ...

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao ...

Nineteen Japanese companies have applied to purchase the government's stockpiled rice, with contracts expected to be ...

It is shown that, in the presence of collection costs modeled as an increasing function of the tax rate: (a) the standard rules of optimal commodity taxation (the Ramsey, the inverse elasticity, the ...

The scheme aims to make it easier for companies to invest in Japan by providing tax benefits for projects with high hurdles for achieving profitability in areas the government sees as ...

Japan has a tax on fossil fuel consumption as a measure to curb greenhouse gas emissions. But it is small in scale. The government has been reluctant to expand or upgrade this tax in the face of ...

What is the case for transferring responsibility for a country’s SIC collection from its social insurance agency(ies) to its tax authority (Section II)? • What changes does such integration of ...