Overseas traders buy long-dated JGBs at record pace this year amid drop-off in demand from domestic institutions ...

Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi has infuriated China with her recent remarks, with no clear means of resolution.

As deadly bear attack numbers surge in Japan’s northern villages and resort towns, the country is scrambling to contain the ...

The total package is valued at 21.3 trillion yen (S$147 billion), with the bulk of the measures aimed at price relief. The ...

Asian stocks have tracked Wall Street’s plunge in skittish trading, with the region’s major benchmarks erasing the previous ...

Among other measures to counter inflation, about ¥1 trillion was set aside to abolish the gasoline tax, a measure first ...

​During the Japanese occupation of Rabaul in World War II, an estimated 360 tunnels were dug into the volcanic soil around ...

Trade cooperation between China and Japan has been “severely damaged”, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Thursday, urging ...

Chinese commentators have repeatedly invoked Japan’s imperialist past and its wartime atrocities as they denounced what they ...

At the heart of the package are measures to support households under financial strain, a key issue for Japanese voters.

The dollar firmed against most major currencies on Thursday, after losing some ground as signs of faster U.S. job growth in ...

The Bank of Japan will discuss at upcoming policy meetings the feasibility and timing of a rate hike with a focus on next year's wage-growth impulse, governor Kazuo Ueda said, signalling the chance of ...