The Latest Breaking News from Japan

The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created by survivors of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Nihon Hidankyo has provided thousands of witness accounts and public appeals by survivors, who are known as hibakusha, and has sent…

The founder of legendary Japanese rock act B’z has helped develop an Epiphone recreation of his vintage 1955 Les Paul

Learn how rising temperatures due to climate change are impacting rice farming in Japan's Okayama prefecture.

December S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESZ24) are up +0.36%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ24) are up +0.68% this morning as upbeat results from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. boosted sentiment, while investors awaited a fresh batch of U.S. economic data as well as an earnings report from streaming giant…

The amount of miles Celtic's Reo Hatate has travelled without playing for Japan.

Executives from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard are in Japan in a bid to overcome resistance to their $47-billion takeover of 7-Eleven's parent but are being given the cold shoulder, according to interviews published Thursday.

Gresini Ducati rider Alex Marquez says he was “surprised” at the media comments made by Honda’s Joan Mir immediately after the most recent MotoGP round in Japan.

The incident is the latest between China and Japan around disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Japan has reported its exports to key destinations like China fell in September, leading it to rack up a trade deficit of about $2 billion for the month

In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama Prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than usual

Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd organisation, faces extradition to Japan after arrest in Nuuk in July