Zombie firms are businesses that are unprofitable and struggling to keep afloat. They don't have excess capital to invest and grow the business, or to pay down the principle. Concerns about zombie ...

Designed for brutal strategic battles in a roguelike format, Ed-0: Zombie Uprising takes place in fictional Edo-era in Japan where hordes of hungry zombies have raided the isolated country. No dungeon ...

Visitors to Tokyo in the 1990s arrived in a city that looked like the future. A megalopolis of high-rise buildings, neon lights and new technology left a mark on those who witnessed it. But the city ...

Japanese comedian Shinagawa Hiroshi has been set as the director of “Among the Dead,” the first project flowing from the co-production and co-financing venture between U.S.-based People of Culture ...

Over the next decade, the U.S. economy will face two big challenges: higher interest rates and AI-generated disruption. Each invites the same solution: policies to keep rates below their market level.

One in six Japanese companies have become “zombie” firms unable to keep up with debt payments from profits alone, putting them in a vulnerable position should the central bank raise interest rates ...

As the above chart shows, Japan’s run at matching US levels of per capita GDP fell apart 25 years ago. What happened? Economist Noah Smith suggests we are seeing the results of a natural experiment in ...

ECONOMISTS USING the term “zombie” used to have Japanese companies in mind. Firms that are dead competitively but continue to haunt their living peers proliferated in the decade or so following ...