While hikikomori, the Japanese term for acute social withdrawal, often brings to mind young recluses in dark bedrooms, the ...

Rice prices in Japan have doubled since last year partly due to supply shortages that began last year, triggering a national ...

The rule allowing fixed-term academic employees to switch to indefinite employment after 10 years is a serious factor in ...

Women's shogi player Ichiyo Shimizu, who holds a seventh-dan ranking in the game, has been appointed as the new president of ...

Orient Corp., a Japanese non-bank lender, is accelerating efforts to restructure its struggling overseas business with a ...

Economic security has been an ever-present element in trade talks between Japan and the United States, and an area of broad ...

A US startup has announced plans to roll out an AI assistant in Japan to help ease the country's shortage of medical workers.

Japan's Kazuyoshi "King Kazu" Miura made his first appearance of his 40th season as a professional footballer at the weekend ...

Japan enacted its first law dedicated to economic security in 2022 amid escalating tensions between the United States and ...

By Praveen Paramasivam (Reuters) -Japanese sportswear giant ASICS will ramp up India manufacturing to 40% from 30% over the ...

PH and Japan conducted joint maritime exercises in the WPS over the weekend, marking one of their first major joint ...

Japan's top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick spoke by phone for 30 minutes on ...