favourites

Hello Kitty’s looking pretty at 50 (and worth more than ever)

Hello Kitty is famously the height of just five apples. But these days, the more striking statistic is that she’s worth more than 1 trillion yen–...

Gearoid Reidy

Hello Kitty is famously the height of just five apples. But these days, the more striking statistic is that she’s worth more than 1 trillion yen–...

Hello Kitty is famously the height of just five apples. But these days, the more striking statistic is that she’s worth more than 1 trillion yen–...

Hello Kitty is famously the height of just five apples. But these days, the more striking statistic is that she’s worth more than ¥1 trillion –...

After years of relative stability, Japanese politics is about to enter a shaky period after a terrible showing by the LDP.

Faced with the option of a successor to Shinzo Abe or his polar opposite, Japan’s ruling party has broken with more than a decade of orthodoxy.

Tokyo’s re-emergence as an investment destination was one of the more surprising trends of last year.