Komusubi Wakatakakage took another major step on the comeback trail from a severe knee injury suffered three years ago, winning the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on May 24 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo ...

Japanese companies helped propel the benchmark index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange to its highest level in 33 years after they announced plans to buy back their own shares worth a record 3.2 trillion ...

The Nagoya High Court on Aug. 30 sounded the alarm about the current situation where anyone could be treated as a criminal suspect for life once they have been deemed as such by Japan’s law ...

A hacker group calling itself RansomHouse claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that crippled the operations of office supply e-commerce giant Askul Corp. and downloaded 1.1 terabytes of data, ...

The Idemitsu Maru oil tanker arrived off the coast of Nagoya Port on May 25, becoming the first Japan-bound vessel of its kind to pass through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz since the recent ...

SAN FRANCISCO--A start-up that a Nobel laureate co-founded plans to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor using laser technology by around 2030. Shuji Nakamura, co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize ...

Japan is set to compile on Friday a record $490 billion spending package to cushion the economic blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, bucking a global trend towards withdrawing crisis-mode stimulus ...

Versatile actor Tatsuya Nakadai, who delivered powerful performances in classic films directed by Akira Kurosawa as well as on stage and TV, died of pneumonia on Nov. 8. He was 92. A private wake and ...

TOKYO--Japan’s Miki House, a maker of luxury baby and children’s goods in a country with ever-fewer births, is looking overseas for both production and customers for products like its 100,000 yen ...

Nine ruling Liberal Democratic Party presidential candidates dashed out of the blocks on Sept. 12, the first day of official campaigning, on a two-week sprint to the vote. With all vying to replace ...

Japan's biggest companies agreed to hike wages by 5.28% for 2024, the highest in 33 years, the country's largest union group said on Friday, reinforcing views that the county's central bank will soon ...

The government is considering boosting its annual spending on U.S. military facilities in Japan by tens of billions of yen to appease the Trump administration, although the amount may not be ...