Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...

TOKYO, - Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Friday as a weaker yen lifted automakers, and financial stocks gained after raising their annual profit forecasts. The Nikkei was up 0.8% at 38,842.13 by ...

Asian markets were mixed Friday after Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell tempered expectations for interest rate cuts, while traders also contemplated a hawkish Trump presidency. The tepid performance ...

Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of Japan's royal family and great aunt to the emperor, died aged 101 on Friday in a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. She had been hospitalised ...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s longest actively serving partner in Tokyo is leaving the company, according to an internal memo ...

The Italian Parliament has agreed to support the country's efforts with the UK-led Global Combat Air Program (GCAP). Japan is ...

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September quarter as consumer spending held up.

TOKYO — Donald Trump in his second term as president is likely to accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and ask for ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.

The Japanese army's fleet of hybrid-helicopter aircraft have been cleared to resume operations after being grounded following ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Nissan Motor shares jumped as much as 6% in early Tokyo trading on Friday after Japan's Diamond Online ...