Convenience store chains in Japan are well known for stocking everything from boxed lunches to dress shirts, often living up to their name by offering myriad services ranging from dry-cleaning and bill payment to parcel pickup. In a sign product offerings may still have room ...

An extra $200 billion in levies on goods were proposed Tuesday, rattling financial markets and setting off fears across the globe that the worst may be yet to come.

A wide-range of reactions were heard Friday to news of the executions of Shoko Asahara and six former senior members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo — which carried out the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway system — with ...

Some economists see the upcoming 2019 consumption tax increase as a potential step toward repeating mistakes of the past.

Although the overall impact is difficult to measure, some predict that it has already increased consumption on a scale of billions of yen.

Hiroki Shimada can trace the genesis of his company, Scouty Inc., back to a time when he was on the outside of the job market looking in. During his graduate studies in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Shimada was surprised to ...

A new hard-line U.S. policy aimed at halting imports of Iranian crude oil may deal a significant blow to the growing ties between Tokyo and Tehran.

Working long hours to move up the job ladder is a lower priority for newly employed graduates in the nation, according to a recent survey published by the Japan Productivity Center (JPC). The 50th edition of the annual research, released Thursday, showed that over 40 ...

Experts see the policy change as motivated by business interests rather than a sincere desire to shift away from protectionism.