Japan has seen a surge in desperate young people committing ‘yami baito’ – small-time crimes as part-time jobs.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Rakuten Group has decided not to seek a listing for Rakuten Securities on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the company said on Thursday.

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a ...

Tensions rise as Beijing stokes Okinawa independence movement with propaganda and diplomatic outreach for potential Taiwan ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government nominated female economist Junko Koeda to replace Seiji Adachi on the BOJ policy ...

Kaguya Komatsu has been named the first female CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management -Japan, succeeding Shoichi Ohkoshi, who ...

After two decades in Japan, one Canadian man shares some differences between life there and in his home country. Ron Reid, ...

Backdrop: Japan had been mired in decades of weak prices and economic stagnation, and even as inflation impacted the globe in ...

Japan's central bank has raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25%, noting that inflation is holding at a ...

Initially, the tech-led equity selloff created favorable conditions for a Japanese Yen rally due to risk aversion and ...