Economist Suzuki Toshiyuki says the US Federal Reserve's rate cut will not have a significant effect on Bank of Japan policy.

Japan's National Police Agency says a total of 917 people were involved in mountaineering accidents across the nation in July ...

An earthquake registering lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of zero to 7 hit an island in southwestern Japan on ...

Tokyo's benchmark stock index set another intraday high on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate ...

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Crews are pumping water out of an underground parking garage in central Japan's Yokkaichi City that was flooded after record ...

Fishers in central Japan have landed the season's first catch of spiny lobsters. Two fishing boats returned to port in the ...

With a new high-rise threatening to overshadow its historic castle, Matsue City in western Japan is caught between preserving ...

Thursday marks exactly one year since a Japanese schoolboy was stabbed in Shenzhen, in the southern Chinese province of ...

The Israeli military has hailed its major ground offensive in Gaza City, saying it struck a weapons production facility as ...

Chinese journalist Kou Aizhe spent 14 years searching for a Japanese midwife who delivered 10,000 infants in postwar China, ...

US media outlets say an American banking executive who had been barred from leaving China has been allowed to return to the United States.