Japan's Nikkei 225 tumbled over 3% on Monday and the yen weakened against the dollar as traders reacted to the results of the ...

A Japanese student of ninja history who handed in a blank paper was given top marks - after her professor realised the essay ...

Asia share markets were mostly firmer on Monday as China announced more stimulus measures, though the Nikkei dived on ...

TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Japanese retail sales rose 2.8% in August from a year earlier, government data showed on Monday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's incoming prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, will likely name former Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya as ...

Japan’s ruling party will elect its new leader Friday, and the winner will become the country’s next prime minister.

Former Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba was elected by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Friday as its leader and, ...

Shigeru Ishiba, right, with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and other candidates, celebrates after Ishiba was ...

Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, a plain-spoken populist, won leadership of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party in ...

Ishiba, who wants an “Asian NATO” to counter security threats from China and North Korea, is the Liberal Democratic Party’s ...

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