TOKYO: Japan's government admitted on Monday (Oct 7) manipulating an official photo of the new Cabinet to make its members ...

Laapataa Ladies has made a significant impact with its recent release in Japan, further extending its international reach ...

Cosmetics giant Shiseido Co. is relocating its production facilities back to Japan in seeking to win customers with a “made-in-Japan” brand. “What is important for business is brand values ...

Hand-dyed denim and vintage machines are used to make jeans that sell for up to US$1,400 a pair in town where even the roads ...

Most tatami mats are a natural golden color, but those made by Mitsuru Yokoyama may be jade green, pink or even black.

Scott Robertson admitted that the decision to include Sam Cane and TJ Perenara in the All Blacks squad for their year-end ...

Japan’s regional economies are facing severe labor shortages. Their survival depends on their ability to persuade foreign ...

New Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday his former faction failed to report income from fundraising parties in a ...

Divine will or not, Mr Ishiba triumphed on his fifth attempt last week, and on October 1st he became Japan’s prime minister. His selection does not herald a drastic change of trajectory in Japan’s ...

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a ...

For a sense of the challenges Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda faces in weaning the world's fourth-largest economy off ...