TOKYO—Last year, China native Tomo Hayashi, the owner of a metals-trading firm, moved to Tokyo. He quickly adopted a Japanese name, spent the equivalent of about $650,000 on a luxury waterfront ...
A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.
Japan likely conducted its second currency intervention this week, current account figures from the central bank suggest, in another sign of the government’s intensified battle to prop up the yen.
Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. Save When I moved to ...
Kabosu, a Japanese shiba inu, inspired the viral "doge" meme and became the face of Dogecoin cryptocurrency. A big barrier is erected as local residents accuse tourists of dropping litter and ...
Japan’s economy contracted in the first quarter, squeezed by weaker consumption and external demand and throwing a fresh challenge to policymakers as the central bank looks to lift interest ...
Something quite remarkable happened during Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit to Washington last week. It was not the wide-ranging bilateral agreements, though there was plenty to ...
Anyone who imports and eats Russian or Chinese food is dicing with death with all the chemicals, pesticides and pollution used on the farms of those countries and in the oceans around them. In fact, ...
India will overtake Japan in nominal gross domestic product in dollar terms in 2025, according to the International Monetary Fund's estimates released this month. Japan's nominal GDP in 2025 is ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. April was a testy month for Japan. The yen tumbled to a 34-year low before the government appeared to barge ...
The Japanese yen hit a fresh multidecade low before rebounding sharply, after the government stepped in to shore up the currency. The yen weakened past 160 to the dollar early Monday, before ...