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Who’d have thought a medium-format camera would reach the number one spot in Yodobashi's mirrorless camera sales list?

The Brazil World Cup 2026 squad edges closer, as Carlo Ancelotti looks ahead to the tournament

The dollar index (DXY00 ) today is up by +0.44% at a 1-week high. The dollar is climbing today after French Prime Minister Lecornu resigned, which undercut the euro. Also, the yen tumbled after Sanae Takaichi, a proponent of easy fiscal and monetary policy, won Saturday's election to become Japan's...

Traders piled into Japanese stocks after the country's ruling party named Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, betting on her Thatcherite policies to supercharge growth.

A US-Japanese trio on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into how the immune system is kept in check by identifying its "security guards", the Nobel jury said.

Things aren’t exactly peachy for Nissan at the moment. Following a failed merger attempt with longtime rival Honda, the Japanese auto conglomerate now faces a massive restructuring. That means Nissan will eliminate thousands of jobs, shutter dozens of factories, and lose hundreds of millions of dollars in profit in the…

Takaichi's parliamentary career has covered a range of policy portfolios. She has served as Minister of State for Economic Security, and previously has been involved in internal affairs and communications.

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced on Monday.

Saturday’s defeat to Chelsea led to a handful of fitness concerns for Arne Slot.

December S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESZ25) are up +0.36%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ25) are up +0.55% this morning, pointing to a higher open on Wall Street as investors wager that a resilient economy and further rate cuts from the Federal Reserve will continue to underpin corporate earnings.

 Japan’s Nikkei 225 index soared to an all-time high on Monday, following the election of Sanae Takaichi as the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).