Janga's reimagined Jenga set is comprised of 54 mini bottles rather than the regular wooden blocks, according to the website Sora News 2. Made of acrylic, the hollow pieces in the standard version can ...

Rice prices in Japan have started to ease, falling below Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s target of below 4,000 yen for a five-kilogram bag.

The fragility of a more-than-yearlong stock rally in Japan, fueled in part by a weak yen, has been exposed by the sudden strengthening of the currency.

Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested at least five people in connection with cases of Vietnamese technical intern trainees ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation and strained households.

Two months ago, some in Tokyo joked that we no longer carry yen in our wallets, but Japanese “pesos” or “rupiah.” Now, with the yen up more than 12% since mid-July—and perhaps headed for ...

An end to 17-year-old policy in Japan Everything changed on July 31, when the Bank of Japan raised rates on short-term government bonds from 0% to 0.25%.

Police have arrested two primary school teachers in Japan for taking and sharing indecent images of young girls in a chat ...

Japan’s Dow Jones average —calculated in roughly the same way as the American Dow-Jones but otherwise unrelated — closed for the day at 1,839 yen ($5.09), ten points above the seven-year-old ...

WHEN a regulatory filing revealed a stake of more than 5 per cent had been built up in Japanese property management firm Storage-OH last October its shares spiked 17 per cent. The investor that ...

National public servants in Japan received their summer bonuses on June 30, with average payments for general administrative ...

The 67-year-old narrowly beat Sanae Takaichi, who opposed the Bank of Japan's recent rate hike and favors Abenomics-style policies—the combination of monetary easing and large fiscal stimulus ...