Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, met for talks on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations-r...

High tariffs on the two nations will drive a wedge between America and its strongest allies in the Indo-Pacific region.

Takeshi Iwaya expressed "strong concern” over China’s export controls on rare earths.

Kirin Holdings’ wine unit will stop selling the early-release wine in the country amid soaring costs and changing tastes in what had been a...

Masatsugu Asakawa was deeply involved in Japan's trade and currency negotiations with the U.S. when he was vice finance minister for interna...

The move raises concerns over companies’ profitability and whether they can continue to keep raising wages at home.

By Yumi Asada, Hanako Montgomery and Chris Lau, CNNShirahama, Japan (CNN) — They came, dressed in black and white, wearing furry hats, an...

The health ministry is expected to cut the official price of the drug by up to 15% from the current level of about ¥3 million per patient a...

Campaigners argue that lengthy pretrial detention is meted out too easily in Japan, especially if suspects remain silent or refuse to confes...

Japan June PPI +2.9% y/y expected +2.9%, prior +3.2%-0.2% m/m expected -0.2%, prior -0.2%AKA Corporate Goods Price Index. It's a measure of...

The School Lunch Act, passed into law in 1954, did not go so far as to require schools to serve meals. Nonetheless the vast majority of scho...

Japan's wholesale inflation indicator, PPI (the PPI is also known as the Corporate Goods Price Index), is expected to have slowed in June fr...

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TOKYO: A trial challenging Japan’s lengthy and gruelling detention of criminal suspects opened in Tokyo Wednesday, with plaintiffs decrying...

The deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft from Camp Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture to the new camp in Saga is scheduled to be completed by mid...