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

The commission’s 2025 budget amount is JPY3.71 billion (US$23.5 million), flat relative to the JPY3.70 billion allocated in ...

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

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, “Banzai,” which means “long live,” while others waved small paper Japanese ...

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

Tremors in the Nankai Trough, south of Kobe, have increased recently as seismologists flag higher risks of a major quake in ...

A potential foreign acquisition of Japanese retail giant Seven & i would be "heavily related" to national security, Japan's ...