U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that U.S. authorities conducted a yen-buying intervention in the currency market at the request of Japan. "They have a weakening yen, and they wanted a little ...

The Japanese Ministry of Finance said Monday that it conducted a yen-buying currency market intervention Friday, U.S. Eastern time, "in coordination with" the U.S. Treasury Department. Japanese Minist ...

Japanese players appeared in a game for a new U.S. women's professional baseball league that kicked off Saturday. Right-handed pitcher Ayami Sato, from Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, took t ...

Japan's Princess Aiko visited Ise Jingu, a major Shinto shrine complex in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Sunday. Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, observed tradi ...

The House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, will install security cameras in the Diet building starting in fiscal 2027. The plan has been considered partly in resp ...

The Japanese and U.S. governments are considering issuing a joint statement aimed at stemming the yen's depreciation against the dollar, informed sources said Sunday. After Japanese and U.S. authoriti ...

Some officials of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration have floated the idea of compiling a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2026 in response to extensive damage caused by a m ...

The death toll from Tuesday's powerful earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, has risen to 38 as two more deaths have been confirmed, the prefectural disaster response headquarters ...

One in four people in Japan believes that more advanced artificial intelligence will replace their friends and families in the future, a Jiji Press survey on communications has found. The proportion ...

Japan's Foreign Ministry will support Japanese small and midsize companies and startups seeking to enter the Indian market or expand investment there through diplomatic efforts to urge the Indian ...

Since its introduction in 1989, Japan's consumption tax has been raised three times and now accounts for about 30 pct of total national tax revenue, making it the nation's largest core tax category.