Paris Olympics men's marathon sixth-place finisher Akira Akasaki said Friday he will try to earn a spot at the world athletics champi ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun announced Thursday it would publish details of the Yomiuri Stock Index (Yomiuri 333), a benchmark ...

The country's political crisis obscures the fact that South Korea's foreign policy is about to change drastically, writes Ian ...

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (President & Group CEO: Masahiro Kihara) today ...

Asian shares are sharply lower, with benchmarks in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea tumbling more than 2% after a broad retreat on Wall Street ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used to change diapers ...

The Army and Air Force Exchange Service is encouraging people at this airlift hub in western Tokyo to use a local taxi ...

The C-17 military transport aircraft has a payload up to 170,900 pounds and a global range with in-flight refueling.

However, the weaker-than-expected Tokyo inflation figures curbed such expectations, causing the yen to weaken to around 150.15 versus the dollar from around 149.40 at the Tokyo stock market close on ...

Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area grew at a slower pace in February, cooling speculation about an early ...

The Bank of Japan will keep tapering its government bond purchases despite recent rises in yields, deputy governor Shinichi ...