The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25% Friday, noting that inflation is holding at a ...
The trial of the alleged killer of a boy enrolled in a Japanese school in Shenzhen, China began in the city on Friday, ...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, struggling to stabilize his minority government, says he will seek to maintain ...
After a long period of stagnation, the return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest ...
The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis, underscoring its confidence that rising wages will keep inflation stable around its 2% target ...
Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...
The move comes hours after the latest economic data showed prices rose last month at the fastest pace in 16 months.
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 ...
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 ...
A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and ...
Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling network of trains, subways, and buses, often considered the best in the ...
Editor’s note: This story was updated on January 24th.