Japan’s trade deficit widened nearly 8% from a year earlier in April as the weak yen boosted the value of imports, offsetting gains from a…
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Down a Tokyo street lined with bright signs, up narrow stairs and behind a windowless door is a “snack bar” long cherished by regulars but…
A Japanese property developer has decided to demolish a near-complete, 10-story condominium in Tokyo after pushback from neighbors who said it blocked a view of…
A Japanese town that mounted a huge barrier to deter unruly tourists from taking photos of Mount Fuji said Tuesday that around 10 small holes…
Japan launched on Tuesday a new “mothership” for its whaling fleet, aiming to hunt around 200 of the marine mammals this year. The nearly 9,300-tonne…
Japan’s majestic Mt. Fuji was some 700,000 years in the making, but on one sultry May morning, it was gone. At least on one side…
The yen’s drop to fresh 34-year lows is likely to force the Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda to walk a thin line in…
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake jolted Japan’s southwest late Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS put the epicenter of the quake in a…
Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of popular chatbot ChatGPT took root in Japan as it opened its first Asia office in Tokyo on Monday.…
North Korea has claimed that Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is pressing ahead with his efforts to arrange a meeting with Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong…