Central bank sets new policy rate range of up to 0.1%, ending most aggressive monetary stimulus programme in modern history
Japan
Japan’s LDP is one of the most successful political parties in the world, holding power since 1955. Could scandal finally hurt it?
The Japanese director’s new film tells a story more slippery than that of Anatomy of a Fall. Pay attention throughout
Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-maker
Rónán Hession reviews a selection that includes an impressive work by International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospidinov
Planet Business: Spain’s economic surge; the UK’s corruption ‘wake-up call’; and the petition to switch the extra leap year day to June 31st
Fully clothed women will take part in hadaka matsuri, in which thousands of men dress in next to nothing to drive away evil spirits
Shinji Aoba (45) broke into Kyoto Animation’s building, doused the entrance area with petrol and set it alight
Dubbed the ‘moon sniper’, Slim is now operating on its battery which lasts only for ‘a few hours’
Aftershocks threaten to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments
Planet Business: Steamboat Willie, the first female centibillionaire and this year’s tipped holiday destinations
Anton Deibe (17) was aboard with his family when it collided with a Coast Guard plane on Tuesday
New Year’s Day quake killed at least 78 people on country’s northwest coast
Death toll rises to at least 65 after earthquake that struck Noto peninsula on New Year’s Day
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