The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Taiwanese motorcycle company Kymco has launched the Racing S150 scooter in the Japanese market. It packs practical amenities and sporty styling.

Between China's 20th Communist Party Congress, that began Sunday, and the next one in 2027, Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War Two in a race to deter Beijing from war in East Asia, according to Japanese government officials and security analysts.

With the Federal Reserve maintaining high-intensity rate hikes, the currencies of China, Japan, and South Korea, all major Asian economies, have been more or less affected to varying degrees, and are under increasing pressure of depreciation. The exchange rates of the Chinese renminbi (with the offshore exchange rate as a…

Peter McGrail has secured a place on the undercard of the huge undisputed showdown between Naoya Inoue and Paul Butler in Tokyo

The original wooden doo was “ruined” after the driver, a man from the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association, backed his car into it

Qatar inaugurated Tuesday its first solar power plant stretching across the desert, a vast site planned to provide up to 10 percent of the Gulf nation's energy supply. The solar farm in al-Kharsaah, west of the capital Doha, is "one of the biggest" in the Middle East, said Saad Sherida…

Move is to capitalise on rising consumer demand for premium adult soft drinks in the country

Kim Jong Un has allegedly resorted to a series of subversive measures aimed at weakening his enemies.

Founder of online shopping group cements control as Japanese firm offloads its holding at £450m loss

At Tokyo's prestigious Bunka Fashion College, students concentrate in silence that is broken only by the sound of scissors and sewing machines as they strive to emulate the global success of alumni like Kenzo. The loss of greats Kenzo Takada and Issey Miyake heralds the end of a fashion era,…

Worker mistakenly accelerated while the car was in reverse, crashing into the building’s roughly 500-year old wooden door