The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Morning Markets December E-Mini S&P 500 futures (ESZ2 3) are up +0.15%, and the Dec Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ2 3) are up +0.22%. Stock index futures this morning are moderately higher on a decline in bond yields after comments late Tuesday from San Francisco Fed President Daly bolstered speculation...

Officials from Sapporo and the Japanese Olympic Committee have announced a decision to withdraw the northern Japanese city as a candidate to host the 2030 Winter Olympics

Kyoto to sell its obsolete manhole covers in a bid to cash in on the public’s fascination with the decorated pieces

TOKYO: Japanese people’s views of China were the most negative since 2014 in a survey conducted by think tank Genron NPO in August and September.

Morning Markets December E-Mini S&P 500 futures (ESZ2 3) are up +0.05%, and the Dec Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ2 3) are up +0.04%. Stock index futures this morning are slightly higher on the prospects for additional Chinese stimulus, which would be favorable for global growth after Bloomberg reported that...

The shadow chancellor said the availability of migrant workers had led to slow take-up of robots and other technology.

An executive at Japanese publishing house Kadokawa has been found guilty of bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member

Whatever this is, it'll share the spotlight with the Miata ND3.

The enigmatic Japanese photographer, who took some of the 20th century’s most compelling images, is finally getting his first retrospective in the UK. ‘Yes, it’s a bit late,’ he tells our writer

A British army veteran who fought and survived one of his country’s harshest battles known as the Burma Campaign against the Japanese during World War II has traveled to Japan to lay flowers at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at a memorial ceremony on Monday to stress the importance…

Findings regarding clouds above Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama highlight how microplastics are highly mobile