The new forecast, still above private-sector forecasts for 0.5% growth, reflects worries that U.S. tariffs will make Japanese ...

The U.S. state of California, home to roughly 40 million people, towers over most sovereign nations in economic output.

Undeterred, Newsom has continued his boastful ways. A few weeks ago he bragged that California, were it a nation, now has the world’s fourth-largest economy at $4.1 trillion, edging out Japan.

Newsom shared a screenshot at the time of a Fox Business report titled, “California overtakes Japan to become world’s 4th largest economy.” He captioned the image, writing, “Fox News loves ...

California has the thinnest of advantages over fast-growth India, with $4.187 trillion of business output. Now this $11 billion difference is real money, but it’s just a 0.2% gap.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday the government is ready to compile an extra budget to ...

As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya made gains on a “Japanese first” platform.

The revised estimates, presented at Japan’s top economic council meeting, show the government now expects inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 0.7% for the fiscal year ending ...