Japan

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance is taking a stake in the U.K.’s Man Group, marking its first major investment in an...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returned to Caracas in a surprise move that could pose the biggest test yet...

Tokyo – Japan is facing a shortage of Japanese language teachers for foreign workers ahead of the introduction next April...

If you’re looking for love or have a lot to go around, please consider this very lovable fellow — Kumaji.He...

GMO Internet has made an urgent request for the Japanese government to implement “active cyber defense” operations following an unauthorized...

Putting on a matsuri isn’t easy. And if there’s one thing that traditional Japanese festivals require, it’s scores of young...

The Japanese government highlighted the urgent need to fundamentally strengthen the country’s energy supply-and-demand structure to prepare for future emergencies...

“Death comes for all of us in the end,” says Takashi Miike. “Losing people brings that home, and it’s something...

A possible merger between Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and carmaker Tesla may face bigger obstacles from politics than from...

Tokyo and Osaka topped 30 Celsius on Wednesday, the latest in the year both cities have ever recorded such temperatures,...