By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -A Japanese Labour Ministry panel on Monday proposed a 6% increase in the national average ...

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has become Japan’s oldest living person.

Japanese politics is different in many ways, but in one, it’s having what appears to be an analogous moment: “Honestly ...

The earthquake was powerful. One of the strongest ever recorded. Unlike 2011's Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, there ...

Japan's Mitsubishi Materials is considering scaling back copper concentrate processing at its Onahama Smelter & Refinery as ...

The Bank of Japan may hike interest rates as early as October, as trade-related uncertainty has started to recede and ...

A tsunami advisory was also issued for parts of Alaska and the entire West Coast after a powerful earthquake off Russia's ...

Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan on Monday, the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through its ...

Japan’s government bond yields fell on Monday morning following a weaker-than-expected US employment report, raising concerns ...

The Kuril Islands and Japan's northern island of Hokkaido were hit by tsunami waves after a magnitude 8.8 undersea earthquake ...

"It's not one that's going to cause mass devastation. But it will cause coastal flooding and it will cause damage and it does ...

Miyu Yamashita of Japan captured her first major title when she withstood a charge by Charley Hull by not making a bogey ...