“We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.” The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when ...

Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Wednesday reiterated that the government would take appropriate action against ...

The Bank of Japan will debate whether to raise interest rates next week as prospects of sustained wage gains heighten and the ...

TOKYO :A potential foreign acquisition of Japanese retail giant Seven & i would be "heavily related" to national security, Japan's economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Wednesday. His public ...

As the Japanese city of Kobe marked the 30th anniversary of a deadly earthquake on Friday, a series of recent tremors off the ...

Asian stocks have taken the cue from Wall Street, with MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan down 1%. Japan’s Nikkei fell 1.8%, while Australian shares slid more than 2%.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will debate whether to raise interest rates next week as prospects of sustained wage gains heighten and the US policy outlook becomes clearer in president-elect Donald Trump’s ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Wednesday reiterated that the government would take appropriate action against excessive movement on the foreign exchange market ...

Japan is known as the 'Land of the Rising Sun.' The reason is due to its location, which is to the east of the Asian ...

Some shouted banzai — “live long” — while others waved small paper Japanese flags. “I feel for those who are still greatly suffering,” Naruhito said, referring to the quake in Ishikawa Prefecture that ...