Japan’s Fast Retailing said Wednesday that it will raise the starting monthly salary for new employees by 10% to ¥330,000 from March 2025, taking their annual pay to slightly over...

A potential foreign acquisition of Japanese retail giant Seven & I would be “heavily related” to national security, Japan’s economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Wednesday. His public comment is...

Japanese cybersecurity authorities raised an alarm Wednesday over a China-linked hacker group called MirrorFace, saying it has struck 210 targets in Japan since 2019. Analyses of the targets and methods...

The Fair Trade Commission issued administrative guidance to Japan Post last year for failing to adequately respond to a request from its parcel delivery service subcontractor to pass on higher...

NEW DELHI – After India achieved world-beating economic growth last year, its policymakers are scrambling to head off a sharp slowdown as worsening global conditions and domestic confidence wipe out...

Major TV networks have distanced themselves from one of Japan’s biggest 1990s boy band stars after media reports said he paid a woman a large settlement related to alleged sexual...

Tokyo police announced Wednesday that they have rearrested three individuals, including the CEO of a painting company, on suspicion of assaulting a former colleague five months before his death in...

A research team at Osaka University found that 87% of patients who suffered kidney function impairments after using Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s beni kōji red yeast rice supplement continued to experience reduced...

Geneva – An awkward question remains five years after Covid-19 began its deadly rampage: is the world ready to handle the next pandemic? The World Health Organization, which was at...