Japan’s financial regulator is surveying life insurers to examine risks tied to their growing practice of transferring policy liabilities to reinsurers backed by global investment firms, according to people with...

Sapporo – A central government-mandated cap on overtime hours has come into effect for Japan’s trucking industry, leading to decreased revenue among Hokkaido transportation firms and concerns for the future...

In August 1941, about four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill aboard warships in Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay and agreed to the Atlantic...

Japanese stocks have been stuck for about eight months, languishing below all-time highs hit in July last year and failing to convincingly break the curse of the ’80s. “Broadly speaking,...

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that...

Japan is in the midst of a semiconductor renaissance. Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM) — a joint venture between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Sony, Denso and Toyota — kicked...

The wildfire in Iwate Prefecture is quickly becoming one of the largest in decades, destroying 2,100 hectares of land, so far, in the past five days — or three times...

The Maritime Self-Defense Force’s destroyer Akizuki passed through the Taiwan Strait in early February, government officials have said, in an apparent move to counter China’s increasingly aggressive behavior in the...

The “rice of industry.” This is how the economy ministry referred to semiconductors in the first iteration of Japan’s landmark chip strategy in 2021. The metaphor captures how indispensable this...