Japan has been battling sluggish growth, mounting public debt and a rapidly ageing workforce.

By Makiko Yamazaki Feb 12 (Reuters) - Japan has agreed with the United States to accelerate talks on the first batch of deals ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is poised for a landslide victory in the recent election. Her Liberal Democratic Party and coalition partner may secure a supermajority in the lower house, ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pushed through a record supplemental budget and is proposing tax cuts, raising questions about ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's economy shrank almost 2% in the three months through September, as a drop in exports in the face of U.S. tariffs resulted in the first contraction in six quarters, government ...

A hastily staged election has consolidated the LDP's grip on power, but it has sidelined real policy debate and left Japan's ...

TOKYO (AP) — Share prices have soared recently in Tokyo on hopes that conservative Japanese lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be Japan’s first female prime minister, will double down ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new economic revitalisation minister, Minoru Kiuchi, said on Tuesday a weak yen has benefits to the economy and its demerits could be addressed by swiftly compiling a package ...

Japan’s military buildup in the Nansei region is sending a message to an increasingly aggressive China that it will defend its economic interests and its people, according to defense experts recently.

TOKYO—The Japanese economy grew at a faster pace than initially estimated in the second quarter, revised data showed, confirming a fifth straight quarter of growth. Real gross domestic product ...