In Japan, thousands of kimonos are gathering dust in people’s closets — or worse, ending up in the trash. One startup is transforming these unwanted kimonos into everyday apparel, in a bid to reduce ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japans Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato agreed that the current dollar-yen exchange ...

Giant panda Fuhin is pictured on May 20, 2025, at Adventure World zoo and amusement park in Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. Wakayama prefectural police presented a certificate of ...

Recently, global financial markets have been grappling with the ripple effects brought about by dramatic disruptions in Japan ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato agreed on Wednesday that the dollar-yen ...

When Japan's farm minister declared that he never had to buy rice because his supporters give him "plenty" of it as gifts, he ...

Oil prices also rose more than 1% after CNN reported that Israel was preparing a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities ...

The company behind a new nature adventure park on Japan's southern island of Okinawa is hoping the country's huge tourism ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s exports to the United States, its largest single trading partner, fell nearly 2% in April as tariff ...

Japan is one of the top travel destinations for Singaporeans — with a record of more than 690,000 travelling to the country ...

The 40-year yield is still below the US 30-year Treasury yield, which earlier today briefly flirted with 5.0% again. Click to read.

WEBTOON Entertainment reported an operating loss of US$26.63 million for the first quarter of 2025, marking a sharp downturn from an operating profit of US$14.19 million in the same period last year.