From neighbourhood shopping streets to accessible transport, Japan's most liveable cities remove the everyday frustrations of urban life.

Japan’s yen has depreciated sharply, prompting rare coordinated intervention by the U.S. and Japan to stabilize the currency and protect U.S. Treasury markets. Japan’s defense of the yen is designed to avoid liquidating U.S. Treasury holdings, with the ...

After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.

The unprecedented U.S.-Japan intervention to support the yen may end up shaping market behavior.

The powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un accused Japan of turning its armed forces into a force capable of pre-emptive attacks and overseas military operations.

A major earthquake in Japan's southwest killed at least 13 people and left several injured or missing after a shopping center and a paper mill were heavily damaged.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made $1 billion betting against the yen as the top investor for George Soros more than a decade ago. Now, he is using the might of the U.S. economy to prop up the Japanese currency.

Security camera footage shows doctors shielding a patient on the operating table as last month's magnitude 6.8 quake shook Kumamoto General Hospital.

In quest to win trust of Asian neighbours, Beijing is intensifying its rhetoric against Tokyo's changing defence posture No longer confined to disputed islands or historical memory, the rivalry between Beijing and Tokyo has evolved into a fight for the global microphone,

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio fell to 37% for the fiscal year ended March 31, down 1 percentage point from a year earlier and well below the government's 45% target for fiscal 2030,