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Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will call a national election on February 8 to seek voter backing for increased ...

Long-dated Japanese government bond (JGB) yields shot to record highs on Tuesday on concern that tax cuts touted across the ...

Japan's expected snap general election is increasingly likely to lead to a cut in the consumption tax rate, as ruling and ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's decision to call a snap general election on February 8 to seek voter backing for her ...

Japan and the U.S. have short-listed a few projects as the first candidates under Tokyo's planned U.S.-bound $550 billion ...

Strong winds and heavy snowfall forced the cancellation of dozens of airline flights headed to and from Japan's northwestern coast, the country's largest airlines said on Tuesday, including popular ...

Tourists to Japan from China dropped 45% in December from the year earlier but the total number of inbound visitors hit a record high for the month, the Japanese minister for tourism said on Tuesday.

Chinese exports of rare earth magnets to Japan in December fell 8% from November, when a diplomatic spat left market players ...

Japan’s Inpex will resubmit an environmental plan for its proposed 8 million metric ton-per-year Bonaparte carbon capture and ...

Sanae Takaichi came to power promising to tame inflation. But she’s boosting the crop’s cost to appease a subsidy-fuelled ...

Elsewhere, Japanese yields speared higher and demand at a 20-year debt auction faltered as Prime Minister Sanae ⁠Takaichi ...