Economy
France's Bond Slump Stirs Japanese Doubts About Europe
French 10-year yields climbed toward 5%, the spread over German bonds widened, and fiscal and political anxiety fed the selling. Japanese coverage framed it as 'investors feel Japan is safer after all,' but the comment threads leaned the other way: readers treated it as a eurozone-wide structural problem and were skeptical of calling Japan a safe haven given its own debt load.