Japan’s economy is likely to shift to an expansionary phase this fiscal year due to improvements in domestic demand, exports and a windfall from last year’s decline in oil prices, the Bank of Japan’s chief economist has said.

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Nintendo thinks it has the answer for people scared off by all the complex switches and buttons on home video-game controllers – a simpler device that looks like a TV remote control and can be waved like a wand or a baseball bat.

Japanese researchers are planning a new supersonic passenger jet three times the size of Concorde.