It's usually a serene two-and-a-half-hour ride on Japan's famously efficient bullet train. But the journey quickly descended into a zombie apocalypse, with passengers ...

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 ...

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 ...