The spread of double-income households and the eroding concept of lifetime employment have forced Japanese companies to change their traditional ways of transferring personnel. Employers are ...

Trust in Japan's financial institutions has reportedly taken a hit. File image/Reuters Public trust in Japan’s largest financial institutions is faltering after recent scandals involving employees ...

Executives at a leading Japanese bank have apologized and taken pay cuts after police arrested an employee who allegedly ...

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (pic) on Tuesday (Jan 21) congratulated Donald Trump on his return to the White House and said he wanted to build a "relationship of trust".

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to hike interest rates twice in 2025 and twice more in 2026, International Monetary Fund chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya announced Friday that he plans to visit Washington next week to attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, expressing hope to build a ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya announced Friday that he plans to visit Washington next week to attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, expressing ...

BUSAN: The Japan-South Korea-United States relationship has been strong for the past few years, thanks to a happy domestic alignment that currently exists. In Japan, where the left is rarely ...

In this May 10, 2019 file photo, the logo of MUFG Bank is seen in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese megabank MUFG Bank said Thursday that its internet banking service has been unstable ...

Record defence budgets from Japan and the Philippines come as tensions with China grow and incoming US leader urges allies to spend more.

Police arrested a former chancellor of Tokyo Women's Medical University on Monday over alleged breach of trust in relation to transactions over the construction of new school buildings. Kinuko Iwamoto ...