The yen was the only Group-of-10 currency rising against the dollar on Monday as investors sought it as a haven on concern ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

Japan's central bank raised interest rates to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis and revised up its inflation forecasts.

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a ...

Erik Buhrow dreams of retiring in Japan. Until then, he's renting out the akiya, or abandoned home, to other Americans who ...

"Old" is a relative term; not everything millennials and previous generations hold sacred should be considered ancient just ...

International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...

An elderly man from Japan has gone viral for his extremely frugal ways. Hiroto Kiritani, 75, a former pro shogi (Japanese chess) player has earned himself the nickname of ‘God of Freebies’. The reason ...

Tomiko Itooka, a 116-year-old Japanese woman recognized as the world's oldest person, has died of old age, an official of the western Japan city of Ashiya where she lived said Saturday. Born on May 23 ...

The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka ... us courage and hope through her long life," Ashiya's 27-year-old mayor Ryosuke Takashima said in the statement. Itooka, who was one ...

Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born on May 23, 1908. She became the oldest person last year following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas ...