The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was ...

TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet hit 32%, the lowest since his government's October 2024 launch, in the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo survey.

Yuta Kato is increasingly annoyed by foreigners ignorant of Japan's social etiquette, whether that involves blocking the streets near his work in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district or distracting ...

Four of Tokyo's best hotels for a swish city break - Tokyo is a city full of luxury hotels — so which ones stand out from the ...

Against a backdrop of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States with Israel over the former's nuclear facilities ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the United States. It’s an astonishing figure, but still subject to ...

Among the sea of saffron on the Kanwar Yatra trail to Haridwar, one figure stands apart — Hoshi Takayuki, a 41-year-old ...

Nishijinori, the intricate weaving technique for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan’s ancient ...

Time has stood still on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Life building across the moat from Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Behind heavy wooden doors lies an office, preserved since 1945, that houses the desk ...

TOKYO: Three drones were detected in a Japanese nuclear power plant where two reactors are being decommissioned, the ...

Japan requires people changing their gender to have genitalia resembling those of the target gender. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

If it’s advising you where to go, you’re probably not the only one heading there, says Catherine Thorbecke for Bloomberg ...