Japan

The duo is seen smiling with Mount Fuji as their backdrop.

Japan's first female leader gambled on rare winter snap election.

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan (BOJ) ended eight years of negative interest rate on Tuesday, making a historic shift away from its focus on reflating growth with decades of massive monetary…

TOKYO: Kairos, a small, solid-fuel rocket made by Japan's Space One, exploded just seconds into its inaugural launch as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite…

TOKYO: Japanese stocks raced to a record peak on Thursday, breaking levels last seen in 1989 during the halcyon days of the bubble economy, as cheap valuations and corporate reforms lure…

TOKYO: Japan unexpectedly slipped into a recession at the end of last year, losing its title as the world's third-biggest economy to Germany and raising doubts about when the central bank…

TOKYO: Two aircraft belonging to Korean Air Lines and Cathay Pacific Airways clipped wings at New Chitose Airport on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Tuesday amid wintry conditions, a…

TOKYO: A massive earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit central Japan on Monday, triggering a tsunami warning and advisories for residents to evacuate. A tsunami around 1…

REUTERS: US President Joe Biden may have taken tensions with China to a new level altogether by snubbing Beijing and instead, inviting Taiwan to a deomcracy summit. The first-of-its-kind…

The Group of Seven richest democracies on Saturday (Jun 12) sought to counter China's growing influence by offering developing nations an infrastructure plan that would rival President Xi…

Japan wants to ban sales of new petrol cars in around 15 years' time as part of efforts to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, reports said Thursday. The new policy could be announced as…

Japan will give free coronavirus vaccines to all of its residents under a bill passed Wednesday, as the nation battles record numbers of daily cases. The bill, which says the government…

Coronavirus deaths could more than double to two million without collective action against the pandemic, the World Health Organization has warned, as Australia's prime minister urged any…

REUTERS: Torrential rain hit Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu on Monday, with at least one more river bursting its banks, as the death toll from three days of floods and mudslides rose…

Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori said that the Olympic Games, already postponed to 2021, would be “scrapped” if they could not take place then, according to an interview published on…