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The Bank of Japan lowered its growth forecast by more than half and paused its efforts to raise interest rates.
The best places to stay, eat, shop and visit across the country, according to Japanese artists, designers and chefs.
A meter-long snake had brought the busiest bullet train route in Japan to a halt, between Maibara and Gifu-Hashima ...
Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...
With an unusually gloomy outlook for both the economy and inflation target, the central bank has just made it more difficult ...
TOKYO (AP) — Shouting “banzai!” or “live long,” thousands of people gathered in a Tokyo park on Thursday and marched through ...
Donald Trump’s quixotic trade war appears to have entered the tilting-at-windmills phase as the U.S. president sees “big, ...
A U.S. bomber’s emergency landing that shut down a shared runway and canceled commercial flights in northeastern Japan has ...
Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said on Wednesday that he aims for steady but quick progress in tariff ...
JERA, Japan's top power generator, may consider Alaska as a potential source of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply, an ...
Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the nation's population has been in decline for 15 years. Last year ...