Explore the outer regions of the Greater Tokyo area, where you can trade skyscrapers for stunning natural landscapes and ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

Chief Master Sgt. Griselda Criddell, of the 374th Maintenance Squadron, and her daughter try on kimonos during Japan Culture ...

After a long period of stagnation, the return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest ...

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gives an interview in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2024.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, struggling to stabilize his minority government, said Friday he will seek to maintain ...

Consumer inflation in Tokyo likely accelerated in January, underlining persistent pressure on living costs, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.

The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25% Friday, noting that inflation is holding at a desirable target level. The decision by the central bank came at the end of a ...

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and ...

A press conference presenting the upcoming 'Ramses the Great: the Gold of the Pharaohs' exhibition was held on Thursday in Tokyo. This traveling exhibition, which narrates the accomplishments of ...

Another 0.25 percentage-point hike to Japanese rates has come and gone without markets batting an eye. That is surely the point of the central bank’s drive to normalise monetary policy. With wages and ...

Asian shares have advanced after U.S. stocks rose to a record and the Bank of Japan raised its key lending rate. U.S. futures ...