Autumn in Japan is a season for mountain climbing, and the number of foreign hikers is rising. Police statistics show that ...

In the last survey released in 1987, geographers counted islands with a coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey. The previous ...

Japan just went through a big scare. More than a dozen strong quakes had been detected in the northern part of Honshu, its main island. The largest had a magnitude of 7.6. This created a risk of ...

TOKYO, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Japan's largest labour union group said ... setting a target of at least 6% to narrow the income gap with workers at large firms. Kazutaka Maeda, an economist at Meiji ...

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TOKYO/TAKAMATSU, Japan, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates at a "very moderate" pace and avoid hiking prematurely, its policymaker Seiji Adachi said on Wednesday ...

Japan is poised to welcome larger share-sale debuts in the coming months, invigorating a market that has mostly seen debuts raising less than $100 million (¥14.4 billion) in the past decade.

Japan factory sentiment worsens in Q4, services improve - Tankan By Investing.com - Dec 13, 2022 By Ambar Warrick Investing.com-- Sentiment among major Japanese manufacturers grew worse in the ...

The markets begin October with some trepidation. Rumors continue to circulate about the health of a large European bank, cross currency swaps are elevated, suggest dollars are more difficult to ...

The plant is the last factory in Japan to produce large LCD panels for televisions. Sakai Display Products Corp., a subsidiary of Sharp, is operating the plant. It will halt production by the ...

A Japan land ministry official was surprised that its real estate information website launched on April 1 has earned more ...

This paper examines the impact of news shocks of the openings/expansions of large-scale semiconductor plants in Japan on the local labor market, especially on the jobs-to-applicants ratio, using ...