(CNN)-- Japan's national sport of sumo wrestling was rocked by a match-fixing scandal on Thursday after it was revealed three wrestlers had admitted to rigging bouts. "Three sumo wrestlers have ...

Japan’s population has been in decline for several years – at the last count in 2022, the population had shrunk by more than 800,000 since the previous year, to 125.4 million.

TOKYO, May 13 (Reuters) - Japan is seeing conditions fall in place for the central bank to normalise monetary policy, ruling party heavyweight Katsunobu Kato told Reuters, underscoring growing ...

Japan likely conducted its second currency intervention this week, current account figures from the central bank suggest, in another sign of the government’s intensified battle to prop up the yen.

During WW1 silk postcards and handkerchiefs were bought ... and the ensign of the Japanese Imperial Army. The reverse has Fabrication Francaise P.R. and Modele Depose printed on it and lines ...

I write about economics, financial markets and investing. As James Macintosh of the Wall Street Journal points out, the Japanese equity market indices have almost exactly matched the stellar ...

By Motoko Rich, Hisako Ueno and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Tokyo When the future empress of Japan entered the country’s elite diplomatic corps in 1987, a year after a major equal employment ...

TOKYO, May 7 (Reuters) - Japan may have to take action against any disorderly, speculative-driven foreign exchange moves, the government's top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on Tuesday ...

Currency traders warned Japan’s government that it will need to repeatedly act to buoy the beleaguered yen given economic forces likely merit further depreciation. The yen surged suddenly and ...

In March 2023, the Japanese medical authorities announced that the new weight loss drug Wegovy—which was in staggering demand across the world, causing shortages everywhere—had been approved ...

Interestingly, the basic principle was not a novel innovation of WW2, with early similar examples being employed in WW1 to combat lighter ... F-82s based in Japan were some of the first USAF ...

Known as the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan's civilization dates as far back as 30,000 years. Today, the archipelago seamlessly blends its rich history with its ultra-modern present. And while its ...