Japanese retailer Seven & i Holdings has again lived up to a reputation for shrugging off investor calls for better returns.

Please do not enter the sea and stay away from coastal areas,” it said on X (formerly Twitter). As the agency points out, two small tsunamis of around20 cm were detected in two ports in the region.

Although there is a common notion that Japan is an expensive destination, there are many ways to visit the country and save.

Most Japanese regard Katayama as a not-too-strong, neutral character—”neither poison nor medicine”—and doubt that his Cabinet will do much.

As Japan’s population gets older and smaller, the government is struggling to balance its own deeply conservative views on immigration with the need for new and younger workers.

Last week Japan entered the World War —not explicitly, with a formal declaration and a frontal attack; but deviously, jesuitically, with that unsubtle subtlety which is so peculiarly Japanese ...

Did you just arrive in Japan? Oh dear. Bad timing. I’m sure you’ll have fun, but there are better times to visit. Why, you might ask. Because this is Golden Week when the entire country goes ...

Japanese people often pose for photos making the peace sign with their hands. Why did this gesture become so popular?

Failing to do sufficient research was the mistake that Vodafone made when it tried - and failed - to enter Japan with the handsets that were popular elsewhere, not realizing that Japanese ...

High-stakes poker game between U.S. and China heats up as Nvidia faces restrictions on chip sales to China, signaling strategic significance.

The latest troubling sign for the Tokyo Olympic Games came Monday when the State Department advised US citizens against traveling to Japan because of a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases.

TOKYO (AP) — If anyone thought that using technology to steal catchers' signs had only blemished Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros — or it's something new — think again. Japan ...