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 ...

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 ...

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

Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital slowed sharply in June due to temporary cuts to utility bills but stayed well ...

Japan faces abnormally high rice prices, as US president says 'I have great respect for Japan, they won’t take our RICE, and ...

The train station closest to my house has a split personality. Exit north and you’ve got an orderly bus lottery, tidy streets ...

Tokyo stocks dropped Tuesday morning as investors locked in recent gains, while the market was weighed down by uncertainty over tariff talks between Japan and the United States. The 225-issue Nikkei ...