Police in Osaka Prefecture arrested four people early last month for allegedly defrauding a platform operator of about ...

Japan stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Precision Instruments, Insurance and Railway & Bus ...

Japan recently introduced a new series of bank notes. Some of the examples of the 1,000-yen denomination are being sold ...

There is the potential for competition from international businesses such as Amazon to the established domestic companies, including Rakuten and Mercari. The Japanese economy is experiencing a ...

At close: October 3 at 4:00 PM EDT ...

Japan equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Precision Instruments, Insurance and Railway & Bus sectors ...

Mercari, Japan Steel Works, Sharp, ENEOS Holdings, JGC Holdings and Tokyo Electric Power are advancing almost 3 percent each. Conversely, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Nippon Yusen K.K. are plummeting ...

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...

The companies that run the intermediary apps pay the wages in advance to the workers on the same day, and collect the amount ...

A woman in her 60s, who was trying on a pair of black pumps at the outlet, said that mass consumption was the order of the day in her youth, which coincided with Japan’s asset-inflated economic ...

The trend is seen as friendly to consumers and the environment, but it can have the undesirable consequence of pushing down ...

Female full-time workers’ pay in Japan starts below those of men in their early 20s and continues to fall further behind until their 50s in almost every industry, an Asahi Shimbun study showed.