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

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

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

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 ...

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