Highlighting public safety, security and the weak yen, Tokyo is positioning itself as an 'attractive' alternative to current ...

The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was ...

TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet hit 32%, the lowest since his government's October 2024 launch, in the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo survey.

Against a backdrop of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States with Israel over the former's nuclear facilities ...

Among the sea of saffron on the Kanwar Yatra trail to Haridwar, one figure stands apart — Hoshi Takayuki, a 41-year-old ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the United States. It’s an astonishing figure, but still subject to ...

Time has stood still on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Life building across the moat from Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Behind heavy wooden doors lies an office, preserved since 1945, that houses the desk ...

Trump said the EU plans to invest some $600 billion in the U.S. and dramatically increase its purchases of American energy ...

Nishijinori, the intricate weaving technique for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan’s ancient ...

On the eve of induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, players reflected on their legendary careers and the ...

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