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

The issue among the world’s largest nations is worst in Japan. Some 40% of its population will be over 65 in 2050, according to a new analysis by the U.S. Census. The age burden for Japan is ...

China would have to reach about Japan levels of per capita income in 2050 to have an economy the size of the US. China will have to double its per capita income just to hold even on its overall ...

India, which aspires to be a superpower by 2050, is projected by the IMF to overtake Japan in 2026 and Germany the following year. Subrahmanyam’s claim that it is already the fourth-largest economy ...

A panel of Japan’s economic ministry declared Tuesday that it intends to make all new passenger vehicles sold in the country in 2050 either hybrids or fully electric vehicles. Part of the panel ...

Japan has a goal to achieve carbon-neutrality by the year 2050. Speaking in his first address ... carbon-neutrality without jeopardizing the economy. “Responding to climate change is no longer ...

The level of U.S. government red ink is set to explode to more than twice the size of the entire economy in three decades, according to a prominent anti-deficit group. The Committee for a ...

TOKYO — Japan’s economy is now the world’s fourth-largest ... and German economies are powered by strong small and medium-size businesses with solid productivity. Like Japan in the 1960s ...

TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - Japan's government ... wind power in exclusive economic zones (EEZ), a milestone towards the country's goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Japan aims to have 10 ...