Japan looks like it may finally open its borders and end its splendid isolation. The key question is: Can it learn to love foreign tourists again? After a series of head fake border re-openings this year which promised more than they delivered, a report that Japan would scrap most restrictions on tourists was the big one. If realised, the plans ...

  New electric models from Rivian Automotive Inc and Lucid Group Inc have won rave reviews, but you’ll have to be patient to drive one. Since commencing production one year ago, the two companies have produced only around 10,000 vehicles altogether as of June 30. Compare that with Volkswagen AG, which manufactures twice that every day. As the startups are ...

  Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, allied nations have unleashed a suite of sanctions so rapid and broad in its reach that there are no true precedents. Even, say, curbs on Venezuela — oil producer cut off from global finance — are by necessity imperfect. But there’s another commodity exporter whose experience offers less obvious lessons for sanctioning nations and ...