Japan Leadership Hopeful Takaichi Calls for BOJ to Keep Easing The LDP election candidate says inflation is cost-push driven Takaichi is popular among LDP members, one poll shows ...

Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi launched a fresh bid to become Japan’s first woman prime minister with a pledge to use public money to boost jobs and growth. The protege of late Prime ...

Japan’s southern islands were forecast to receive the most rain. The powerful storm has forced flight cancellations and disrupted high-speed rail travel. By Hisako Ueno and Yan Zhuang Typhoon ...

Typhoon Shanshan made landfall Thursday morning in southern Japan, bringing strong winds and high waves to the area, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the agency, the typhoon made ...

“The latest I would leave [the office] would be 11 p.m.,” said the 24-year-old, who used to work for some of Japan’s largest telecoms and e-payment companies. So intense were the demands ...

Almost 4 million people in southern Japan were urged to evacuate as Typhoon Shanshan made landfall Thursday, leaving thousands of residents without power and lashing Kyushu island with hurricane ...

TOKYO—Japan is planning a multibillion-dollar network of small satellites to monitor ships and military sites, its latest response to a barrage of pressure from China that includes a recent ...

TOKYO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Southwestern Japan braced on Wednesday for what officials say could be one of the strongest storms to ever hit the region, as some residents in the path of Typhoon ...

Typhoon Shanshan — forecast by the Meteorological Agency to be a “very strong” storm — is set to hit western Japan on Tuesday, with the agency urging residents to prepare for the storm.

TOKYO : Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday that Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings' new status as a company "core" to national security would not raise additional hurdles to a ...

TOKYO: A strong typhoon was heading for southern Japan on Tuesday (Aug 27), bringing heavy rain and disrupting bullet trains and flights. Typhoon Shanshan was moving towards the southern Amami ...

Japan's economic security minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday she will run again to become president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, prioritizing economic growth to make the country "stronger ...