The yen was volatile on Friday, with two sudden spikes raising market speculation that ⁠authorities had conducted a rate ...

Japan's core consumer inflation slowed in the year to December but stayed above the central bank's 2% target, data showed on Friday, keeping alive market expectations of future interest rate rises.

BANGKOK--Two people were dead and four others missing after a Singapore-flagged cargo ship with 21 Filipinos on board ...

Olympic halfpipe champion Ayumu Hirano was named to the Japanese team heading to next month’s Milan Cortina Games despite ...

Chinese soccer faces its biggest match in more than 20 years on Saturday when it plays Japan in the final of the Under-23 ...

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The Bank of Japan retained its hawkish inflation forecasts on Friday and stressed it will remain vigilant to price risks from ...

WASHINGTON--The Trump administration is allowing China to purchase Venezuelan oil but not at “unfair, undercut” ⁠prices at which Caracas sold the ‌crude before the U.S. removed ‍President Nicolas ...

TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years on the platform now used by more than 200 ...

OSAKA—To further discourage illegal smoking in public, nonsmokers recommend harsher penalties against violators while smokers ...

The Bank of Japan kept interest ⁠rates steady on Jan. 23 and raised its economic and inflation forecasts, ‌signaling its confidence that a moderate recovery ‍would justify raising still-low borrowing ...

The new Centrist Reform Alliance--the second-largest force in the Lower House--was officially launched on Jan. 22 on promises ...