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Working women are playing a bigger role in Japan than Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Kathy Matsui thought possible when she penned her first report on ...

When crown princess Masako attended the Japanese imperial family's twice-yearly garden party in November, she did something so remarkable that it was ...

Japanese industrial production fell at its fastest pace in almost four years in March, according to a preliminary reading, while retail sales in the country picked up ...

Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso pushed back against U.S. efforts to link the yen with bilateral talks aimed at striking a trade deal. “We can't agree to any talk of ...

More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump walked away from a regional Asia-Pacific trade agreement, the U.S. and Japan -- the world's largest and ...

It's time to stop drinking with the boss after work. That's the message of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. banking unit executive Saiko Nanri, who wants to ...

The abdication of Emperor Akihito has reignited debate on Japan's male-only succession rule.

On May 1, for just the second time in more than 90 years, Japan will wake up to a new emperor. When Crown Prince Naruhito assumes the Chrysanthemum ...

Kyoto's annual photographic festival, coinciding with the start of Japan's new imperial era, will attempt to read the country's mood and expose its hidden ...

A university in Japan says it has stopped hiring faculty members who smoke unless they promise to quit, a once-unthinkable decision in a country that has just ...

Convenience chains in Japan including Seven Eleven are now beginning to trial shorter working hours in a handful of stores and are boosting the use of ...

A record-long 10-day public holiday to mark Japan's new imperial era starting next week has the ingredients to both fuel and damp the country's sputtering ...

TOKYO — More than 20 years after it repealed a eugenics law, Japan has agreed to compensate victims of a decades-long government program under which ...

Japan's retail investors have propelled their net long yen positions against the dollar to near a record ahead of the nation's extended Golden Week holidays.

Japan is moving closer to requiring companies to stop using personal information for such purposes as advertising if requested by consumers, a government ...

TOKYO -- In a country known for impeccable manners and minimalist design, Japan's Don Quijote discount retailer is the rebel, the noisy neighbor, the.

The Japanese mission Hayabusa2 has found the crater it blasted into an asteroid earlier this month.

Junichiro Koizumi is regarded as the most accomplished politician of the Heisei Era, according to one survey.

President Donald J. Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo Sunday, September 23, 2018, meet in President Trump's residence at Trump Tower in New ...

TOKYO -- Japan will implement measures to accept foreign blue-collar workers under a new work visa program, the Ministry of Justice indicate.

The top three best-performing Japanese stocks of the Heisei era, declared Mizuho Securities in one of its final analyst reports before the era officially ends next ...

While Japan might not be famous for its love of the oval ball, its connection with rugby dates back further than New Zealand's.

Tohoku, a relatively unknown region in Japan's Honshu island, has a lot to offer curious visitors – especially in winter.

The Bank of Japan has promised not to raise interest rates before spring 2020 as it made a series of tweaks to its massive programme of monetary stimulus.

Tiger Woods just won his first Masters since 2005, so why not do something for the first time since 2006? That's what will happen when the 15-time major winner ...

Japan's household spending likely rose for a fourth straight month in March, a Reuters poll found on Friday, but weak factory output and exports could still push ...

Hong Kong (CNN Business) Ousted Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn has been released from jail in Japan, less than a month after he was re-arrested on new charges ...

People in Japan will gain more rights to prevent IT giants harvesting big data from abusing their pe.

The U.S. government is willing to share at least a portion of the computer code used to operate the fifth-generation Lightning II F-35's avionics and mission ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Fencing Federation said Thursday it will introduce English language ability as a selection criteria for Japanese athletes hoping to ...

HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- Japan's first museum of folklore monsters opened Friday in Hiroshima Prefecture, allowing visitors to get immersed in a strange w.

U.S. automakers barely have a presence in Japan, the world's third-largest car market. Some blame protectionism, others cite the tastes of Japanese consumers ...

America's largest foreign beef customer is shifting to other suppliers as new free trade agreements have created vast blocs excluding the U.S., offering lower ...

Between 1948 and 1993, an estimated 25000 people were sterilized to prevent them from having 'poor-quality descendants'

Government also promises to compensate tens of thousands of people sterilised to prevent 'poor-quality descendants'.

TOKYO — Japan's government apologized Wednesday to tens of thousands of people who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection ...

Shinzo Abe's recent visit to France highlighted areas of cooperation in a growing relationship.

Hong Kong (CNN) Search efforts may be closing in on the wreckage of a Japanese F-35 stealth fighter that crashed into the Pacific Ocean two weeks ago, ...

It isn't exactly Y2K, but the country is scrambling to reconcile its systems with the ancient demands of an imperial calendar.

Japan will see its first imperial abdication in two centuries at the end of April, a rare event even for a hereditary monarchy said to stretch back almost three ...

Japan is heading towards another near-total shutdown of its nuclear reactors after regulators refused to extend deadlines for completing antiterrorism measures.

Robert Brant, who wrested a secondary middleweight world title from Japanese star Ryota Murata in October, is headed overseas for a rematch on Murata's ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp may upgrade one of its battery plants in Japan to produce advanced-format battery cells for Tesla Inc if needed by the U.S. ...

An Arkansas man accused of stomping on the head of a U.S. airman on a military base in Japan has been convicted by a federal jury of attempted manslaughter.

It's admittedly a surprising subject, to say the least. But Japan's pop-up Unko Museum in Yokohoma is dedicated to poop. ("Unko" means poop in Japanese).

In 1868, after more than two centuries of isolationism, the opening of the port of Kobe brought a wave of international influences to this sunny city on the main ...

In the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not a living soul to be seen.But yet the street ...

From a 14-hour wait outside Tokyo's main jail on Christmas Day to a momentous photograph filed from the top of a stepladder, covering the Carlos Ghosn story ...

As geopolitical tensions rise on the high seas in the Asia-Pacific region, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Ottawa to ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...

Japan's government has issued an apology and awarded compensation to thousands of people with disabilities who were forcibly sterilised under a now defunct ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's unemployment rate rose to 2.5 percent in March due to an increase in men quitting their jobs to seek better positions in the.

Despite its modern appearance Japan holds closely onto its traditions. In the age of global migration, that's a good thing.

Around 70 Joseon schools in Japan have funding slashed by the government and are targeted by nationalist organisations.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a video of the asteroid bombing mission recently undertaken by its Hayabusa2 spacecraft.

USD/JPY is currently trading at 111.65, having hit a high and low of 111.79 and 111.45 earlier today. The currency pair faded the early drop below the.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Japan's third-largest bank by total assets, will launch blockchain-based trade finance services in the second half ...

Mr. Ghosn, the former head of the Nissan-Renault auto alliance, was formally charged with breach of trust, adding a new count of financial impropriety onto his ...

Mitsubishi will end production of the Pajero SUV in its home market in August this year. The SUV, an off-roading institution, has been in production since 1982 ...

First lady Melania Trump will celebrate her birthday Friday with a private dinner in the White House residence.

With the long season now over, Ice Time has collated a top 10 list of the best performances by Japanese skaters during the 2018-19 campaign. The list place.

Misuzu Ikeda has struck a rare blow for Japanese women in politics by becoming the first female candidate to be elected to the local assembly in the southern ...

Here's a worry question about Japan's missing-and-presumed-lost F-35 fighter jet: What if China finds it first? The U.S. government isn't worried, or so it says.

Japanese ambassador to TT Tatsuo Hirayama is looking forward to more Trinis visiting his country for the 2020 Olympics to be held in Tokyo, Japan, according ...

Government-approved cryptocurrency trading platforms in Japan are undergoing changes with big players entering the market. News.Bitcoin.com talked to ...

Growing up in Japan, musician Oki Kano never knew he was part of a "vanishing people."

Two decades have passed since we at Goldman Sachs published our first report on “womenomics” in Japan, but has anything really changed on the gender ...

Japan is known for its incredibly varied selection of KitKat flavors, many inspired by regional and seasonal themes, a selection so diverse there's even a ...

A wide smile breaks across the face of captain Michael Leitch as he delivers his "outrageous statement": Japan are aiming to win the Rugby World Cup on home ...

In order to figure out how asteroids explode, JAXA fired a projectile at one.

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In a briefing yesterday, US officials agreed that a cyber-attack on Japan could constitute an armed attack under Article 5 of the US-Japan Security Treaty.

Rougai, a term meaning an annoying old person, reflects Japan's ageing population woes keenly felt by the young, says the Financial Times' Leo Lewis.

China's so-called Belt and Road initiative has been the subject of relentless media coverage. But Beijing's flagship program of outward investment in several ...

After Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan's slip of tongue, Pakistan Twitter also started trending #JapanGermanyBorder and two of the top trends were ...

Emperor Akihito will become first Japanese monarch to abdicate in more than 200 years.

Speculation is simmering that Abe will call a snap lower house election in tandem with the upper house poll this year.

Japan is currently going through a bubble tea craze right now, with shops popping up like so many balls of tapioca settled on the bottom of a brightly colored ...

Emperor's abdication raises question of how to trade the 10-day shutdown.

A cafe in Japan has been drawing tourists, and Instagrammers for its unique attraction: an underwater aquatic toilet.

Japan's F-3 project may prove too ambitious and take up too many resources, especially defense dollars.

A minute or two of a newly shot mobile phone video captures an elderly man repeatedly and, it seems, deliberately, preventing the door of a packed Nagoya ...

TOKYO — It's the end of an era, and the new one already has a name. The Japanese government on Monday officially unveiled the name of the imperial era set ...

Japan's new emperor has yet to ascend the throne, but he already has his first foreign guest lined up: United States President Donald Trump.

One Japanese national was killed and four others injured in terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said ...

The pace of population decline in Japan is accelerating, with the country set to lose the equivalent of a midsized city every year for the foreseeable future.

Young people in Japan are shunning physical love, and they're not the only ones, says Japanese-American author Roland Kelts.

Japan's Olympics Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada has resigned over comments that offended people affected by a huge tsunami and earthquake in 2011.

In chronically overworked Japan, the Golden Week holiday period offers rare respite for the country's work force. Each spring, from late April to early May, the ...

Working women are playing a bigger role in Japan than Goldman Sachs' Kathy Matsui thought possible when she penned her first report on “Womenomics” in ...

Japan's extended spring vacation, when a series of national holidays bunch up, is known as “Golden Week.” This year adds the May 1 accession of the new ...

The majority of Japan's most popular employers are international companies, according to LinkedIn's 2019 study.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force pointed to debris sighted and recovered by ships and helicopters searching for the aircraft.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Sunday but held off from visiting what Japan's ...

Japan's defense minister was asked about the possibility of China or Russia attempting to salvage the crashed F-35 from the seafloor, among other issues ...

An F-15C from Kadena Air Base in Japan crashed into the ocean last June due to pilot error, according to an accident investigation board report released ...

A blind Japanese sailor on Saturday successfully completed a near two-month, nonstop voyage from San Diego to Fukushima Prefecture, making him the first ...

ON A COLD spring day, crowds of Japanese gather to peer at the hulking grey ship moored in the port of Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo. The Izumo, the country's ...

A Japanese university has stopped hiring professors and teachers who light up, officials said Tuesday, as the nation steps up an anti-smoking campaign ahead ...

High hedging costs prompt some to eschew protection and others to avoid US government debt.

The U.S. government is reportedly considering approving the disclosure of at least a portion of the computer code behind the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's avionics ...