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Speculation over snap polls and big spending plans weakens currency, pushing traders to brace for Tokyo’s next move

Japan's bankruptcy cases last year climbed to levels unseen in 12 years as rising raw material costs and intensifying labor shortages took a toll on businesses, a private think tank survey showed on Tuesday.

China bought more from Japan in December than at any point in the last three years, customs data showed on Wednesday, even as Beijing's sharper rhetoric over comments out of Tokyo about Taiwan fuelled fears Beijing could restrict trade ties.

Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said she and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shared concerns over what she called the yen's recent "one-sided depreciation", as Tokyo stepped up threats of intervention to stem the currency's fall.

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a close with no sign of improvements

Young women in brightly colored long-sleeved kimonos and young men in formal suits or traditional hakama and haori gathered Monday at Yokohama Arena to mark Coming-of-Age Day, an annual celebration for those who have turned 20.

Amid fears of potential mineral export curbs by Beijing, Japanese industry is bracing, and Tokyo appears keen on a united international response.