A Bank of Japan board member said on Thursday the central bank is pausing interest rate hikes for now but should resume them ...

Official campaigning began in Japan on Thursday for the July 20 House of Councillors election, a crucial test for Prime ...

The following are key campaign pledges made by major Japanese political parties for the House of Councillors election on July ...

A woman from Myanmar who had worked for a ramen restaurant in Japan has sued its Tokyo-based operating company demanding some ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 struck a small island in southwestern Japan on Thursday, the latest temblor ...

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday defended his party's plan to distribute cash handouts as a quick way to help ...

Japan's former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka eased past Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-2 in the women's singles ...

Rescuers were searching Thursday for 38 people missing in rough seas overnight after a ferry sank near Indonesia's resort i ...

Tokyo stocks fell slightly Thursday morning, weighed down by a decline of the Dow Jones index as weaker-than-expected U.S.

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to 30 years in prison for stabbing three employees, one of them to ...

The man's name is Yusuke Furusawa. He is 49 years old. He works building sets for TV shows. After work, he goes alone to ...