Japan's Cabinet approved Wednesday a plan to lower the consumption tax rate on food and beverages to 1 percent from the ...

Japan's Shiho Kuwaki set her sights Wednesday on further LPGA Tour success after claiming her full membership from next ...

Following a promising start to his sumo career, a British-born teenager has fixed his sights on reaching the pinnacle of ...

A research group from Ehime University's Paper Industry Innovation Center in this western Japan city and its Graduate School ...

A temple in this disaster-hit town is opening its own plastic pool on its grounds to children every day, offering them a ...

The United States sees the substantial undervaluation of the Japanese yen as a serious risk to economic stability in Asia, ...

The responsibility for securing confidence in the yen as a currency rests with the Japanese government. Relying on the United ...

A new novel in Keigo Higashino's best-selling Galileo mystery series went on sale Wednesday, less than two weeks after the ...

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday, with the Nikkei stock index ending up over 3 percent, lifted by optimism for AI demand growth ...

Some Bank of Japan policymakers backed further rate hikes, saying doing so would help tame recent surges in long-term ...

Many spectators, including people returning to their hometown, lined the streets of this northern Japan city on Aug. 2 and 3 ...

The powerful younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has condemned Japan's recent test-firing of a Tomahawk cruise ...