World markets mostly rose on Friday following gains on Wall Street driven by Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong ...

Nothing ruins a day of sightseeing like dragging heavy bags around. Thankfully, Tokyo Station offers plenty of baggage storage options, including coin-operated lockers and staffed storage counters.

THE number of foreign workers in Japan reached a new high, underscoring the country’s growing reliance on people from overseas to address its chronic labour shortage. Read more at The Business Times.

The slightly dovish take may assuage concerns about a yen-led risk-off in global markets, including cryptocurrencies.

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday that underlying inflation is still somewhat below 2%. Ueda added that ...

US President Donald Trump has warned BRICS nations against introducing a new currency or backing an alternative to the U.S.

Weeks after Japan revealed details of a landmark energy plan partly designed to keep up with an expected AI surge, the shock rise of Chinese startup DeepSeek has upended conventional wisdom over the ...

Meta Platforms, Tesla and most other U.S. stocks are rising Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the ...

Toyota Motor 7203.T sold 10.8 million vehicles in 2024, it said on Thursday, remaining the world's top-selling automaker for a fifth straight year.

Nick Leeson went from being a symbol of everything that is wrong with financial markets to investigating the kind of misconduct he became famous for.

The yen made broad gains on Thursday as Japan looks on track to keep raising interest rates while others cut, with the ...