While Shohei Ohtani became a hero for the Dodgers, the MLB champions, the Japanese baseball player is back in the eye of the storm due to the lawsuit against Ippei Mizuhara, who wa ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is reportedly set to meet Trump on February 7 in the US. Tokyo is trying to strengthen ties ...

The government's external debt burden is rising at a pace far outstripping revenue growth, pushing the debt-to-revenue ratio dangerously close to the IMF's 18% threshold by the end of fiscal 2023-24, ...

"DeepSeek means peak in AI capex return expectations," says Bank of America's top global strategist Michael Hartnett.

The idea of Ikigai is becoming popular but the original Japanese definition of the term is much simpler, unlike the commonly ...

World markets are mostly higher following gains on Wall Street driven by Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong profit ...

Japanese homemaker Kirina Mochizuki has always considered "okonomiyaki" savoury pancakes the ultimate comfort food: simple, ...

The Bank of Japan’s message on gradual interest hikes has been clearly received by financial markets, Governor Kazuo Ueda ...

Underlying inflation in Japan is still slightly below the central bank’s target of 2%, Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda said, ...

The yen was on track for its best monthly start to the year since 2018 on Friday, helped by the view that the Bank of Japan ...

Core inflation in Japan's capital hit 2.5%, marking the fastest annual pace in nearly a year, well exceeding the central bank ...

Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area picked up slightly in January, government data showed Friday, supporting ...