ISRAEL’S prime minister has vowed to eliminate trade barriers with the US and urged other world leaders to do the same as ...

The Trump administration is following through on a threat to add a 50% tariff on Chinese goods, in addition to 34% reciprocal ...

Enter Japan’s clever solution: color-coded wristbands that let bar-goers announce their social preferences without saying a word. In the vibrant Noge district of Yokohama, this system is helping ...

A broader negotiation push is taking shaping a day before new US duties come fully into force, even as trade tensions between ...

We dig into the Japanese guitar industry of the 1960s and ’70s and find notable brands, mischievous copies, diligent makers and original designs that led to the instrument’s renaissance in the 1980s a ...

Japan's government is set to submit a nominee to parliament on Thursday to fill a seat on the central bank's board that opens ...

Liberation Day arrived Wednesday (April 2) and with it the sweeping tariffs that US president Donald Trump had promised. What ...

Situated on the boundary of Shinjuku’s Memory Lane — a narrow alleyway of shabby but charming food stalls — Tajimaya Coffee ...

Isao Fujisawa’s 1974 cult classic was feared lost for decades until the fortuitous recent discovery of its original negatives ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

Hana Kusumoto is a reporter/translator who has been covering local authorities in Japan since 2002. She was born in Nagoya, ...

Nintendo soft-announced some slightly disappointing news particularly for foreigners living in Japan: they'll have to fork up ...