The unconventional leader — for starters, she’s a woman — has called an early election for Feb. 8 in an effort to win a broad public mandate for change.

The move by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is an attempt to capitalize on her popularity to help her governing party regain ...

The debate over nuclear-powered submarines is likely to serve as a critical indicator of Japan’s strategic trajectory.

The Economist takes a simpler approach. Since 1986 we have compared the price of one item, the Big Mac, across the globe. To ...

By Mariko Katsumura TOKYO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Northern and western parts of Japan face more heavy snowstorms later this week, ...

Japanese fans rushed to farewell the country’s last two pandas on Sunday ahead of their return to China, in a departure that highlights strained relations between the two countries.

China and Taiwan responded in starkly different ways to remarks by Japanese PM Takaichi Sanae on possible intervention in event of Taiwan contingency ...

But as Alphaville explored on Monday, when it comes to FX, Japan’s Ministry of Finance looks generally to have bought low and ...

Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose 2.0 per cent in January from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, slowing from ...