Japan's Justice Ministry has drafted a bill to bar public prosecutors "in principle" from appealing court orders to start retrials, it was learned Thursday. The new draft was presented at a meeting of ...

The arrested father of an 11-year-old boy who went missing in March and was found dead in Kyoto Prefecture in April may have abandoned the boy's body near a mountain near his home soon after killing ...

The Japanese government is taking on the challenge of mining critical minerals, including rare earths, from the seabed around Minamitorishima, a Japanese remote island in the Pacific, with an eye to ...

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average posted a record single-day gain of about 3,300 points to hit an all-time closing high near 63,000 on Thursday, amid hopes for an early end to the U.S.-Iran ...

Vention, creator of the world's only full-stack automation platform and hardware ecosystem, today announced the European ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent plans to visit Japan from Monday through May 13 for talks with Japanese officials on foreign exchange rates and economic security, people familiar with the matter ...

Paavo Jarvi, a world-renowned conductor from Estonia set to receive a Japanese government honor, has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a recent written interview with Jiji Press. Calling the R ...

Japan's top currency diplomat said Thursday that there is no need to comment on a suspected yen-buying market intervention by Japanese authorities during the Golden Week holiday period in the country ...

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average soared past the 62,000 threshold for the first time ever on an intraday basis on Thursday morning, amid hopes for an early end to the U.S.-Iran conflict. The ...

Trade ministers from the Group of Seven major industrialized countries indicated their readiness to take actions against economic coercion, in a joint communique adopted at their meeting in Paris on ...

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average soared more than 2,500 points to exceed the 62,000 line for the first time ever in morning trading on Thursday. Tokyo stocks tracked gains in U.S. equities d ...

Continental and diaspora leaders call on coordinated global action to translate UN recognition of slavery and colonialism ...