The global inflation surge first made Japan a stock market star and then a crash test dummy The main reason why prices on the Japanese stock exchange fell lower this week than in any other country ...

Interest rates were cut, but fearful for the future, Japan’s citizens sat on their savings instead of spending them. The poster child of 20th-century ... was a booming stock market.

To say that the action in Japan's stock market this year has been a wild ride would be an understatement. The Nikkei 225, Japan's benchmark index, was up close to 27% for the year at its high in ...