The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labor shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

Mitsubishi Corp. took a 52.2 billion yen ($342.4 million) impairment charge on its domestic offshore wind projects in the ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency extended its heavy snowfall warning to around Feb. 9, mainly on the Sea of Japan side, after ...

The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced Thursday for bank and tax fraud ...

The yen climbed to an eight-week top versus the U.S. dollar on Thursday after a Bank of Japan policy board member advocated ...

Damages from special fraud cases, as well as investment frauds and romance scams on social media, totaled approximately 200 ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Japan stands by its policy of supporting a “two-state solution” for the ...

The widow of a Finance Ministry bureaucrat said the government’s decision not to challenge a court ruling concerning ...

BANGKOK--China’s leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra vowed to crack down on the scam ...

The Pokemon Card Game started 30 years ago, overcame a period of poor sales and flagging interest, and is now riding an ...

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The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Thursday to four years and nine months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $17 million to the Los Angeles Dodgers player after he ...