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

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.

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 déjà vu: It had been the victim 15 years earlier.

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 ...

The LDP’s historic electoral fall exposes a fractured Japan, where public disillusionment, economic woes and rising populism ...

This week’s episode is a heartfelt exploration of iconic eateries facing closure and the quiet crisis of succession in ...

Japan’s surprise trade deal with the US sent its markets on a wild ride, pushing stocks to all-time highs and fueling a selloff in government bonds.

Analysts at Bank of America said that the Japan deal "looks like a reasonable blueprint" for other auto-exporting countries ...

Wall Street was on track to open with gains on Friday, adding to record highs ahead of next week’s busy slate of earnings, job market reports and the tariff deadline ...

Matcha mania is sweeping the world. The bright green Japanese tea can be found in everything from Starbucks' lattes in the UK ...

President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the ...

U.S. stocks set more records on Wednesday following a trade deal between the world’s No. 1 and No. 4 economies, one that ...