Heading into the most consequential Japanese upper house election in memory and a possible defeat for the coalition of Prime ...

- A Beijing court this week sentenced a Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma to 3-1/2 years in prison. The man had been ...

Japan's Sunday election could be its most consequential upper house election in years, potentially adding to political instability at a time of uncertainty over interest rates, mounting concerns about ...

A new K-pop boy band made their global debut on Friday with two members who defected from North Korea and an album that ...

Asian shares tracked Wall Street higher on Friday as still-strong U.S. economic data and robust corporate earnings offset ...

Japan's core inflation slowed in June but stayed above the central bank's 2% target for well over three years, highlighting ...

The dollar headed for a second straight weekly gain against major peers, buoyed by some solid U.S. economic data that ...

Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.3% in June from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday. The core consumer price index, which includes oil products but excludes fresh food prices, ...

When car maker Mazda sneezes, everyone catches a cold, say people in its hometown of Hiroshima in western Japan, but these ...

Japan's core inflation slowed in June due to temporary cuts in utility bills but stayed above the central bank's 2% target, highlighting lingering price pressures that will keep alive market ...

Japan's shaky minority government is poised for another setback in an upper house vote on Sunday, an outcome that could jolt ...

Consumers' inflation expectations, by some measures, are also the highest in decades. Inflation has been above the Fed's 2% ...