East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) has announced a new night train that will run between Tokyo and the Tohoku area (northeast ...

The Nikkei rose 6.6% in June, marking its biggest monthly gain since February 2024. In the last five sessions of June, the index gained 5.5%. The Relative Strength Index , a technical measure for an ...

TOKYO - The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: ...

Japan's tax revenue for fiscal 2024 is likely to have reached a record high for the fifth straight year, topping 75 trillion ...

The Nikkei rose 0.84% to close at 40,487.39, its highest closing level since July 17. The index narrowed its earlier gains as ...

The party’s first-ever seats in the Tokyo legislature come amid scrutiny over its leader’s remarks on gender and overall ...

Business sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers has improved slightly, according to a survey by Japan’s central bank ...

Confidence among large Japanese manufacturers improved in the three months to June, a central bank survey showed, as firms maintained their bullish long-term spending plans, unfazed by the immediate ...

Asian stocks rose Tuesday amid optimism countries will strike US trade deals, though Tokyo's Nikkei sank after Donald Trump ...

Trump’s latest round of brinkmanship with Tokyo on Monday comes just over a week before a July 9 deadline for higher tariffs ...

TOKYO -- Japan will extract rare earth minerals from an offshore deposit in a first-of-its-kind pilot project that will begin January next year, Nikkei has learned.

The move comes as Paris-based Natixis starts a new banking branch in Tokyo, in the latest sign of a global financial firm ...