The Bank of Japan left its key interest rate steady at around 0.25 percent as widely expected at the end of a two-day policy ...

Shohei Ohtani became the first Major League Baseball player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season on Thursday i ...

A bronze sculpture of a boy's tricycle that burned in the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 was unveiled Thursday at ...

Wall Street romped to records Thursday as a delayed jubilation swept markets worldwide following the Federal Reserve's big ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly gained over 2 percent Friday morning, led by chip-related technology stocks tracking advances ...

A-27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a woman's apartment in Osaka Prefecture by deducing the ...

Japan is enjoying a boom in visitor numbers and spending. Behind the scenes, however, tax evasion through abuse of ...

One feared consequence of Japan's lowering of the age of adulthood to 18 in 2022 appears to have come true -- a rise in young ...

Tokyo stocks opened sharply higher Friday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street driven by optimism over the U.S. economy ...

Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, a candidate for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) presidential election ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's core consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in August from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Washington next Thursday for talks with President Joe Biden and Vice ...