Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has begun a tour of Malaysia and Indonesia as part of his effort to further strengthen ...

Japan  which has the most generous childcare leave policies in the world, has increased its spending on childcare and offered ...

Japan recorded 2,663 traffic fatalities in 2024, dipping slightly from the previous year, the National Police Agency (NPA) ...

Video shows a bluefin tuna that fetched 207 million yen ($1.3 million) during the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish ...

A ceremony to mark the first trading day of the year is held at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 6, 2025.

The year is 2720 and away from science-fiction fantasies of flying cars, robots and intergalactic travel to far away stars ...

TOKYO/WASHINGTON--The foreign ministers of Japan and the United States said their countries’ ties were stronger than ever on ...

The number of announced M&A deals involving a Japanese buyer or seller jumped 17% from 2023 to 4,700, according to Tokyo-based Recof Data.

Japan has linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country's national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, MirrorFace.

Hair removal treatments are increasingly being extended to children as young as three years old in Japan, raising concerns ...

Wall Street is holding steadier, and U.S. stocks are drifting between small losses and gains a day after strong reports on ...

To address the problem, Tokyo mayor Yuriko Koike has pledged to subsidise epidural childbirth “as early as possible” to encourage larger families. Japan desperately needs more children as its ...