Police said Wednesday that two burned bodies found near a river in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, last week have been confirmed to be those of a couple from Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
Extreme heat scorched the Philippines on Wednesday, forcing thousands of schools to suspend in-person classes and prompting warnings for people to limit the amount of time spent outdoors.
Japan’s weak currency is a "big problem,” Japan Airlines CEO Mitsuko Tottori has said in a group interview, adding that a stronger rate than the current level of around ¥155 to the dollar would be better.
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered Mizuho Bank to pay ¥3.3 million ($21,300) to a former employee for emotional damage, saying its instruction that he stay at home at reduced pay for five years without any work is illegal.
The youngest son of Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Toshihiro Nikai is expected to run in the next Lower House election in Wakayama Prefecture, following a request by town and village leaders in the prefecture on Wednesday that he succeed his father.
Daihatsu President Masahiro Inoue said he sees South America and Africa as growth markets for compact cars made by the Toyota subsidiary.
Oriental Land showed to the press on Tuesday a hotel located in Tokyo DisneySea's new "Fantasy Springs" area, which is scheduled to open on June 6.
Britain's new law allowing the deportation of undocumented asylum seekers to Rwanda is sparking fear among migrants who have come to France in the hope of crossing the Channel to England.
Former Prime Minister Taro Aso held talks with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday evening, as Japan scrambles to cover all its bases in the event of the ex-president’s return to the White House.
The release of treated wastewater into the ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant was suspended on Wednesday as a partial power outage affected the site, operator Tokyo Electric Power Holdings (Tepco) said.
Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for new workers in Japan for a second year in a row, according to survey results released by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The yen has become stuck around a 34-year low against the dollar after months of declines, increasing concern the currency is becoming a liability for Japan’s economy and stocks.
Japan is on the brink of currency intervention if the yen weakens any further, according to one of the country’s former top currency officials.
We are two of the 25 members of the World Bank’s board of executive directors, which collectively represents 189 member countries with divergent interests. So, in addition to holding management accountable, we perform the difficult balancing act of building global consensus on a day-to-day basis. When members see eye to eye, the World Bank is a global public good (GPG) — one of the few places where all countries can strive to find common ground.
China can withstand any new tariffs the world throws at it — even the punitive ones Donald Trump is planning if he wins a second presidential term — because its prices are simply too competitive to resist.
The way we digest new music needs to be fixed.
Now is a good time for established Japanese car companies to seize the opportunity to expand in North America to meet electric-vehicle demand.
Big banks are scrambling to work out what to do with generative artificial intelligence: how to use it to make some of their people smarter, liberate others to focus solely on higher-value tasks, accelerate data ingestion, processing and decision-making while cutting costs. Every bank fears their competitors getting good at AI before they do.
More than 40% of Japan’s municipalities might eventually vanish due to a sharp population decline brought on by a chronically low birthrate, according to a study by a private group of experts.
Tesla is accelerating the launch of more affordable models in a bid to arrest a deterioration in its profit margins and sales.
This was supposed to be the year that Vietnam reaped the benefits from one of its largest natural gas discoveries.
Nine months into the U.S. launch of the first drug proven to slow the advance of Alzheimer's, Eisai and Biogen's Leqembi is facing an unexpected hurdle to widespread use: an entrenched belief among some doctors that treating the memory-robbing disease is futile.
Chugoku Electric Power started a drilling survey Tuesday in the town of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture for the possible construction of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel generated from nuclear power plants.
An expected Israeli assault on Rafah has aid groups scrambling for ways to help the 1.5 million civilians sheltering in the south Gaza city but the uncertain timeline poses a logistical nightmare.
Investigations into the operator of the Kazu I sightseeing tour boat remain ongoing as Tuesday marked two years since the fatal sinking of the vessel off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido.
