Top Japanese officials are backing a tech and entrepreneurship initiative led in part by Joichi Ito, whose involvement with ...

Japanese lawmakers and Uyghur activists gathered on February 25 at an event hosted by the Japan Uyghur Association in Tokyo to address the Chinese government’s atrocity crimes in the Xinjiang Uyghur ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan must take steps to maintain market trust in its finances even as it ramps up spending to revive growth, private-sector members of a key government panel said on Thursday. The ...

(Bloomberg) -- Currency markets have been braced for a possible intervention by the Japanese government to prop up a weak yen. The depreciation over the course of 2025 has made imports more expensive ...

Japan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, October 2025. Prime Minister’s Office of Japan photo President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet with Japan’s recently ...

Japan’s internationalisation drive saw overseas student numbers surpass 400,000 last year. But can it balance labour market needs with public immigration debates to become a global educational hub?

The Japanese government would invest ￥250 billion (US$1.6 billion) in state-backed Rapidus Corp as part of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s pledge to boost domestic chipmaking. The latest ...

Japanese government measures helped to ease inflation, while industrial production and retail sales improved. Read more here.

Two-thirds of Japanese firms are concerned about the government's fiscal discipline, a Reuters survey showed on Thursday, as ...

A screen displays Japan's 10-year government bonds, left, and U.S. 10-year government bonds, outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. Shorting Japan’s government bond ...

Japanese government bonds fell and food-related stocks surged in Japan after reports of a possible cut to food tax ahead of a snap election expected to be held next month. Bonds were hit by concerns ...