Japan has seen a surge in desperate young people committing ‘yami baito’ – small-time crimes as part-time jobs.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Rakuten Group has decided not to seek a listing for Rakuten Securities on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the company said on Thursday.

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a ...

Tensions rise as Beijing stokes Okinawa independence movement with propaganda and diplomatic outreach for potential Taiwan ...

Young Japanese flamethrower Roki Sasaki said on Instagram that he's signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, giving the ...

Roki Sasaki was expected by many to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were right. The flame-throwing right-hander from ...

Kaguya Komatsu has been named the first female CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management -Japan, succeeding Shoichi Ohkoshi, who ...

TOKYO -- Foreign investors sold 116.6 billion yen ($750 million) more in Japanese real estate investment trusts than they ...

After two decades in Japan, one Canadian man shares some differences between life there and in his home country. Ron Reid, ...

Backdrop: Japan had been mired in decades of weak prices and economic stagnation, and even as inflation impacted the globe in ...