If confirmed, Warsh will take charge of U.S. monetary policy at a time when many economists see its traditional insulation from elected officials as being under threat.

The comments came as the weak yen continues to hurt smaller firms by pushing up import costs and narrowing room for wage ...

The total was up 11.7% from a year earlier and comes amid an acute labor shortage in the rapidly aging country.

The arrest marked the first crackdown in the country on cases involving soliciting customers to restaurants and pubs through ...

CEO Kentaro Okuda is seeking to extend the momentum that led to record profit last year, as financial firms compete to capitalize on Japan’s market swings and investing boom.

U.S. President Donald Trump talks about Greenland as a strategic asset that could be bought by Washington, while Denmark ...

The alarm that sounded at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant last week was probably a false alarm, according to an academic ...

Data shows the share held by Chinese makers more than doubled in December from a year earlier, pressuring a European sector that provides over 13 million jobs.

The number of cases of child abuse handled by child consultation centers across Japan in fiscal 2024 came to 223,691, falling ...

A total stop of production and use of PFAS — a family of synthetic chemicals that take an extremely long time to break down — ...

In Tomohiko Ito’s visually dynamic coming-of-age tale, sometimes the greatest wish isn’t for success or escape but for ...

Inflation in Tokyo slowed to 2% year-on-year in January from 2.3% in the previous month, hitting the lowest level since ...