Analysis: Why Japan's emboldened PM won't toy with risks of a weak yen

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's landslide election win has given fresh ...

Nuclear hog hybrids are breeding at breakneck speed in Japan

The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

North Korea warns 'war criminal' Japan over Canada defense agreement

North Korea on Wednesday denounced Japan's new defense equipment agreement with Canada, accusing Prime Minister Sanae ...

Japan's wholesale inflation slows in January, yen import prices up

Japan's annual wholesale inflation slowed for the second straight month in January but yen-based import costs rose, data ...

Japan’s election paves the way for faster tightening

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday won a lower-house parliamentary supermajority at snap elections that she had ...

Japan's Nikkei 225 crosses 57,000 for the first time as Takaichi secures historic mandate

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party captured a two-thirds supermajority in the 465-seat lower house, public broadcaster NHK reported.

In China, consumerism trumps nationalism despite tensions with the US and Japan

In China, consumerism appears to outweigh nationalism regardless of how testy relations have become in recent diplomatic ...

Pick-up in Japan wage growth paves way for near-term rate increase

Combined with a parliamentary election result that opens the door to more fiscal easing, the data sets the Bank of Japan up ...