Japan's annual interest payments on government debt could surge more than 50% over the next few years, government estimates showed on Thursday, highlighting the country's struggle to fix its tattered ...

By Marc Jones and Lawrence Delevingne LONDON/BOSTON (Reuters) -World markets were suddenly looking calmer on Wednesday as the ...

A lawyer for an 88-year-old man acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case has sought about 217 million yen ($1.4 mi ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

Morgan Stanley’s forecast for the greenback is one of the most bearish among strategists surveyed by Bloomberg. Adams sees ...

Asian shares advanced Friday after U.S. stocks rose to a record and the Bank of Japan raised its key lending rate. U.S. futures edged lower and oil prices fell after U.S.

This marked a jump of 16.9 per cent from 2023, which saw 591,300 visitors – also a record number that year. JNTO said the surge was due to a stronger Singapore dollar against the Japanese yen, as well ...

Bank of America also delivered a profit report on Thursday that beat expectations, but its stock was more subdued. It fell 1%. U.S. Bancorp, meanwhile, fell to one of the worst losses in the S&P 500 ...

TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei share average climbed on Thursday, tracking a rally on Wall Street amid robust U.S. bank earnings and a cooling in core consumer inflation. The Nikkei added 0.28% to 38,551.96 as ...

TIBOR stands for the Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate and is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks offer to lend unsecured funds to other banks in the Japan wholesale money ...

TOKYO (AP) — Executives at a leading Japanese bank apologized and took pay cuts on Thursday after police arrested an employee who allegedly stole about 1.4 billion yen ($9 million) worth of valuables ...

Sydney, Jan 15 (IANS): Health authorities in the Australian state of Victoria have advised people to be cautious of mosquitoes after detecting cases of Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV). The ...