Asian shares wavered on Friday, weighed down by the return of tech-heavy South Korean stocks from holidays, but relatively ...

Japan is expected to report its first year-on-year increase in household spending in five months, a Reuters poll showed on ...

Emergency workers have been hampered by unstable ground since Tuesday, when a truck and its driver were swallowed north of ...

Asia markets are mostly higher on Friday following gains on Wall Street driven by Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong ...

The space between the two sinkholes collapsed early on Jan 30 morning and created one larger hole. Read more at ...

Japan saw its biggest year-on-year jump in foreign workers since records began, government data showed Friday, as the country ...

TOKYO - New US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his Japanese counterpart General Nakatani agreed in a phone call on Jan 31 to continue efforts to strengthen the countries’ alliance, Tokyo ...

Emergency workers in Japan began building a ramp Friday to try and reach a 74-year-old truck driver who has not been heard ...

Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose 2.5 per cent in January from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, keeping ...

Takeda Pharmaceuticals has named Julie Kim as the first woman to lead the 244-year-old Japanese drugmaker, a rarity in senior ...

The search for a 74-year-old truck driver trapped in a Japan sinkhole entered a fourth day on Friday (Jan 31) as worsening ...

The sinkhole, which opened on 28 January in Saitama prefecture, swallowed the 1,800kg vehicle, trapping the truck driver. Rescuers initially heard the driver responding, but lost contact soon after.