Overnight, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq again closed at record highs as US data including retail sales and jobless claims beat ...

Small and medium-sized firms like Mitsuwa Electric that form the backbone of Japan's economy have weathered many storms over ...

Japan told Group of 20 countries that tariffs aren’t the right way to fix imbalances, and that countries facing such ...

Polling suggests the LDP is on the cusp of an electoral drawdown. Ishiba’s approval rating is sub-21% — deep into bear market territory. And even if he tries to hold on by citing “ongoing tariff talks ...

Japanese markets dip after polls flag threat to PM Shigeru Ishiba’s coalition losing majority in Sunday’s election.

TOKYO: Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 per cent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday (Jul 18), piling further pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of elections this weekend. T ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday but will not discuss tariffs ...

TOKYO] Japan’s key price measure cooled a tad more than expected while remaining well above the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) target, ...

When car maker Mazda sneezes, everyone catches a cold, say people in its hometown of Hiroshima in western Japan, but these ...

Bessent, one of the three top U.S. tariff negotiators, landed in Japan on Thursday night, his first visit to the country since taking office. After meeting with Ishiba, the secretary and his ...

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." ...