Heading into the most consequential Japanese upper house election in memory and a possible defeat for the coalition of Prime ...

Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated ...

Bank of Japan officials see little need to shift their policy stance of gradually raising interest rates in the wake of Prime ...

A bad night for the ruling coalition could cost the prime minister his job and make it harder to strike a deal with ...

After months of fraught negotiations with the United States, Japan clinched a deal just days before punitive tariffs were ...

Moody's Ratings said on Tuesday the potential impact of a cut to Japan's consumption taxes on the country's sovereign debt ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he wants to oversee the "steady" implementation of a recently ...

The US has reached another deal with Japan, where it’s announced a tariff rate of 15%, which was down from the rate they were ...

Mr Ishiba has been under growing pressure to step down as his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition ...

The dollar remained stable on Tuesday as investors focused on trade negotiations before the August 1 tariffs deadline, while ...

In Brief. In Japan’s forthcoming quadrennial unified local elections there will be 1000 separate elections. More than 230 political heads, such as prefectural governors and city and town mayors, will ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to remain in power to oversee the implementation of a new Japan-U.S. tariff ...