China’s securities regulator has told investment banks to pause initial public ‌offerings and has suspended large ⁠share sales by ⁠existing shareholders until markets recover, The Financial Times ...

GMO Internet Group Inc. failed to detect a cyberattack on a subsidiary’s service for about two and a half months, enabling the intruder to steal files from customers’ computers, the company revealed ...

SEOUL—North Korea on Tuesday dismissed as “absurd rhetoric” US allegations that it was behind a $6 billion ⁠cryptocurrency heist on the Binance platform, saying they ⁠proved Washington remained ...

A major earthquake that registered a maximum seismic intensity of 7 rocked Kumamoto Prefecture at 4:27 p.m. on July 28, causing casualties, damaging or destroying infrastructure and disrupting ...

HAMAMATSU—The production of the famed Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer ended just two years after its launch in 1980 primarily due to poor sales. However, despite its unfortunate start, the electronic ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced her second reshuffled Cabinet on Sept. 17 after personally reviewing questionnaires filled by Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers on what posts they desired in ...

Japan’s government on Aug. 7 officially launched a contentious debate on capping its foreign population as a high-level working group convened for the first time to hash out a future immigration ...

Global warming under a worst-case scenario would leave Japan with only seven fully operational ski resorts decades from now, a research team said. Almost all skiing venues around the nation would have ...

Iwojima island, the stark volcanic outpost home to one of World War II’s fiercest battles, remains the site of an unfinished search—for the Imperial Japanese Army soldiers who never made it home. Of ...

OSAKA—A stained glass artwork by the creator of “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure” was unveiled at JR Osaka Station on July 29, intended to serve as a new landmark and meeting point. “I hope my work will ...