Katsu Tsunoda, senior managing director of The Asahi Shimbun Co., will be promoted to president and chief executive officer, ...

NAGOYA--A woman who used the name “Itadakijoshi Riri-chan” (Riri the sugar baby) on social media and sold manuals on how to ...

NAHA–Things are looking up for Okinawa's economy thanks to surging tourism as the prefecture marks its 53rd anniversary of ...

The Bank of Japan ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on Tuesday, making ...

A rumor circulating in Hong Kong that a huge earthquake and tsunami will hit Japan this summer led to such a sharp drop in ...

Shoppers may soon get welcome relief for soaring rice prices as the government started the release of its massive stockpile ...

Toshiba and Rohm said on Friday they would invest 388.3 billion yen ($2.7 billion) to jointly produce power chips, the first ...

Sharp Corp., the Japanese electronics maker owned by Taiwan's Foxconn, posted on Thursday a full-year loss of $1.9 billion ...

The government pledged to slash the pollen count in half over the next 30 years to make life more tolerable for the millions ...

Misconduct at precision motor manufacturer Nidec Corp. occurred not only in accounting to inflate profits but also in ...

The final disposition of the remains of the founder of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult may be nearing a resolution, with the ...

Jordan’s Attarat power plant was envisioned as a landmark project promising to provide the desert kingdom with a major source ...