At its Monetary Policy Meeting that concluded on June 18, 2025, the Bank of Japan decided—much as markets had expected—to leave monetary settings unchanged.
A quarter of the low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs) receiving loans related to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have debt exposure to China exceeding 10% of their GDP.
The accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which accompanied the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, was an unprecedented disaster that shocked not only Japan but the entire world.