Japan looked unstoppable. Tokyo’s skyline grew overnight, wealth overflowed, and confidence soared. But behind the neon ...

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index surged Thursday past the record it set in 1989 before its financial bubble burst, ushering in an era of faltering growth. The index closed Thursday at 39,098. ...

Japan's Nikkei 225 on Thursday finally broke through a record high set just before the country's asset bubble catastrophically burst in the early 1990s. Skip to main content France 24 ...

If Japan's real economy stalls, the current stock market boom will eventually accumulate as a new financial bubble following the massive liquidity being pumped into the economic system by Western ...