Talks on seafood trade are expected to be on the agenda on Wednesday as Japan's foreign minister visits China, Japan's ...

Japanese foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya was due in Beijing on Wednesday for talks with counterpart Wang Yi and other top ...

Japan's government is in final talks to compile a record over 115 trillion yen ($732 billion) general account budget for the ...

Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said being recognised with a Nobel Peace Prize has given them ...

Japan’s Finance Ministry will set a key rate used to calculate the country’s interest payments at 2%, an increase from the ...

During the Cold War, Japan pursued a strategy of prioritizing economic development and minimizing confrontation to avoid ...

Japan's Nikkei share average inched down on Wednesday as investors avoided active bets with Wall Street closed for the ...

The government Tuesday decided to raise adjustment allowances for public school teachers, paid instead of overtime, gradually ...

The fire department in this northeastern Japan city is warning people, especially the elderly, to be cautious of hypothermia ...

Today, 9 countries wield nuclear weapons with the cumulative power to end human civilization in minutes. Yet in the nearly 80 ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda reiterated his view that the bank needs to carefully watch various risks without signaling ...