Explore the outer regions of the Greater Tokyo area, where you can trade skyscrapers for stunning natural landscapes and ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gives an interview in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2024.

After a long period of stagnation, the return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest ...

Yoshinobu Tsutsui, chairman of Nippon Life Insurance Co., holds a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2025, with the 70-year ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, struggling to stabilize his minority government, said Friday he will seek to maintain ...

Consumer inflation in Tokyo likely accelerated in January, underlining persistent pressure on living costs, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.

The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25% Friday, noting that inflation is holding at a desirable target level. The decision by the central bank came at the end of a ...

Another 0.25 percentage-point hike to Japanese rates has come and gone without markets batting an eye. That is surely the point of the central bank’s drive to normalise monetary policy. With wages and ...

Asian shares have advanced after U.S. stocks rose to a record and the Bank of Japan raised its key lending rate. U.S. futures ...

Tourism numbers are sky-high in Japan. The country saw record numbers of travelers throughout 2024, and government officials ...

Japan Airlines is dramatically increasing flight connections to the U.S. for the summer, which means getting to Japan will be ...