The move would mark the central bank's first rate hike since July last year, when it increased rates to 0.25%.

The 52-year-old former SMAP member said his contracts had been wound up, and that negotiations with sponsors were in progress ...

The decrease — the first in six years — came after prices rose nearly 30% to a record high in 2023 when several luxury condos ...

The anemic quarterly growth figure points to an economy already in a weakened state, with the prospect of tariffs clouding ...

One year after Tomoko Tamura became head of the Japanese Communist Party, she faces tough questions about her leadership as ...

Investigations involving the use of fake IDs will target crimes such as robbery, special fraud, investment fraud and romance ...

We will demand more than in the previous year to fulfill our role as a leading industry in Japan,' union group head Masashi ...

Japan's growing tourism, set to hit 40 million visitors in 2025, boosts the economy but strains infrastructure, highlighting ...

The war in Ukraine has already prompted structural reforms and an increase defense spending at the national and EU levels.

Imran Khan, who was handed a 14-year sentence for corruption by a Pakistani court last week, is not the first of that ...

The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) said it would ask prosecutors to indict Yoon over ...

Thursday's milestone makes Thailand the first Southeast Asian country to allow equal marriage, and the biggest place in Asia ...