A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party ruling coalition may lose its majority in the upper house in an election on Sunday, which ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Fitch Ratings sees fiscal policy as the main risk to Japan's credit rating, its Japan sovereign analyst said ...

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to ...

A new Japanese defense policy white paper showed the country was seeking to be a major military power, North Korean state ...

Demonstrating Japan’s intention to fortify its space policy and support the growth of space businesses, the ...

Pyongyang calls Tokyo’s defence white paper ‘a war scenario for realising its ambition for reinvasion from A to Z’.

Japan's banks face an unfamiliar environment after the central bank reversed its longtime policy of negative interest rates ...

Throughout the spring, Ishiba battled to reach a deal on the government’s budget and to assuage concerns among the public ...

Russia operations and North Korean threats pose the greatest challenge to global order since World War II, in its annual ...

More than two-thirds of Japanese firms believe the government should compile an extra budget later this year to mitigate the ...