Share buybacks by publicly traded companies in Japan hit a record high of over ¥18 trillion last year due to accelerated corporate efforts to improve capital efficiency and apparent pressure...

The latest U.S. sanctions on oil tankers hauling Russian petroleum look set to cause severe disruption across the nation’s export machine, with some of Moscow’s flows at risk of a...

Sapporo – With the winter sports season in full swing, skiers, snowboarders and those who just want to experience the snow are once again descending on Hokkaido. But the influx...

When Fuji TV held a news conference on Friday, the goal was likely to put out the public relations fire surrounding it following growing criticism over its handling of alleged...

Cedar pollen was observed in Tokyo on Jan. 8 — a month earlier than last year and the earliest since the Tokyo Metropolitan Government began pollen counts in 1985. The...

As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term in office, Japanese businesses are anxiously calculating the potential fallout from the raft of policy changes he has pledged to deliver...

San Francisco – For Curtis Sparrer, a work-from-home evangelist, an office is nothing less than a “corporate jail.” Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic sent workers scrambling for home, laptops...

WASHINGTON – Cryptocurrency executives swilled cocktails and danced to rap superstar Snoop Dogg on Friday night as they celebrated the approaching inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, whose administration has promised...

As Japan vies with Germany for a lucrative contract to build new frigates for Australia, Tokyo seems determined to learn from the past and avoid the mistakes made in its...