It's a familiar scene on the evening news: A wild boar ventures out of the woods looking for food and wreaks havoc on a countryside town, spurring local authorities to arm themselves with nets to catch the rogue animal. Boar populations in the country have ...

The budget shows Abe’s desire to prevent a tax hike from putting the brakes on the economy by triggering a plunge in demand.

With trade issues at the forefront of last week's meeting of the Group of 20 finance leaders, another topic seemed to get less play but deserves equal attention: monetary policy normalization. The consensus among the attending finance ministers and central bank governors was that the ...

The Group of 20 finance chiefs and central bankers conclude their annual meetings in Washington united against trade wars but baffled on how to prevent them.

He is arguably Japan's best-known disabled athlete, but some may be surprised to see Atsushi Yamamoto at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics. Famous for Summer Paralympics track and field events, Yamamoto claimed silver in the long jump at the 2008 and 2016 Games and a bronze ...

The country’s banking giants race to adapt to changing business conditions thanks to a graying population and the spread of online banking.

Three medalists are aiming to sweep the podium in the men's Alpine skiing sitting category when the Paralympic Games kick off in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in less than 100 days. Japan's gold medalists from the Sochi Games — Takeshi Suzuki and Akira Kano — are ...

Nearly 70 years after a U.S. atomic bomb laid waste to the city of Hiroshima, the attack continues to hold an important place in the psyche of its residents. Every year, the ceremony commemorating the Aug. 6 bombing and the people who perished is the ...

What would you do for a great cause? Would you go through three months of grueling boxing training while juggling your day job and climb into the ring in front of hundreds of your friends and coworkers? That's what 16 amateur fighters did for "Executive ...