The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Artisan Partners Asset Management told Japan's Seven & i Holdings that a negotiated buyout deal was the 'best tactic to preserve positive stakeholder outcomes'

The sport was introduced to the Paralympic programme for Tokyo 2020.

More than 75% were 65 or older and almost 4,000 bodies weren't found for more more than a month, with 130 going undiscovered for more than a year.

Wizardry was huge in the 1980s, and helped define both Western and Japanese RPGs as we know them.

After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.

Few electric bassists have a style as singular and strong as Japan’s fretless sorcerer

Japan lodged a formal protest via China’s embassy against what it called an incursion by a Chinese survey ship into its territorial waters

Tropical Storm Shanshan wreaks havoc in Japan with fatalities, injuries, and widespread damage as it moves towards Tokyo.

Japan is a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death

Tropical Storm Shanshan is slowly making its way northeast toward the Tokyo area, setting off a mudslide that killed three people

The dollar index (DXY00 ) Friday climbed to a 1-1/2 week high and finished up by +0.37%. The dollar found support from Friday’s US personal spending and the core PCE reports, which dampened speculation the Fed will cut interest rates by 50 bp at next month’s FOMC meeting. The dollar...