Toyota Motor and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) plan to invest a total 500 billion yen ($3.27 billion) by 2030 into an ...

Dental clinics, once said to outnumber convenience stores in Japan, are increasingly shutting down, unable to adjust to their ...

Fujitsu Ltd. will hire new employees throughout the year, breaking from the tradition of accepting university and other ...

BOSTON--A U.S. jury on Monday ⁠found Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical liable ⁠for causing about $885 million in damages by ...

OSAKA--The nation's first casino-centered integrated resort (IR), planned on a manmade island here, remains a safe bet ...

The ninth year of the Kansei era of the Edo Period (1603-1867) in feudal Japan corresponds to the year 1797 in the West.

YAMAGATA—A man from Fukushima who is accused of helping a string of people kill themselves was rearrested on May 13 in ...

Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, appointed its first foreign CEO and handed ...

Hay fever sufferers beware. Forecasters are predicting that cedar and cypress pollen is arriving earlier and in larger ...

A series of cyberattacks on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency resulted in a mass data leak of more than 10,000 files ...

Japan’s largest banking group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) will cut the pay of its CEO and five other executives ...

This year’s “shunto” spring labor-management negotiations is now in full swing with labor unions expected to make high-level ...