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The article discusses efforts by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan to seek trade agreements allowing the country to improve its exports.

The article reports on complications, as of March 26, 2011, in Japanese efforts to manage a crisis involving the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which had been damaged two weeks previously by an earthquake and tsunami. Repair workers were being exposed to hazardous levels of radiation. A 12-mile evacuation zone had been established around the location.

The article reports on the decrease in consumer prices in Japan in June 2016, the fastest pace since 2013. Topics discussed include the decline of fresh food prices by 0.5 percent, the increased pressure for the Japanese government and the central bank to take action, and the expected easing measures to be announced by Bank of Japan.

The article discusses the mass stabbing at a nursing home for the disabled in Sagamihara, Japan. Topics include the reference to global acts of violence in the U.S., Afghanistan or France, the shock with the killings expressed by Takashi Suzuki as well as the reputation of Japan as being one of the most peaceful countries in the world as per think tank, Institute for Economics and Peace. The lethal sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subways by the Aum Shinrikyo religious group is also mentioned.

The article discusses the warning issued by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on May 27, 2017 about an another delay in a planned sales-tax increase in Japan and a possible economic crisis (EC). Topics mentioned include the challenges facing Abe's economic policies including the need to tackle the government debt, and the global conditions that could indicate an EC including the slowing growth in China and emerging markets and the decline in commodity prices.