A Tokyo court has handed a suspended sentence to the former chief treasurer of what was once the largest faction of Japan's ...

Shares in Hong Kong and mainland China rocketed Monday, extending last week's surge after Chinese authorities unveiled a raft ...

A July trade delegation led by Gov. Greg Abbott hopped aboard a bullet train for a fast trip to Tokyo, feeding the appetite ...

Global markets have had a wild start to the week, with Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index tumbling nearly 5% while Chinese markets ...

Japan's incoming prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, will fill key party posts on Monday followed by a new Cabinet on Tuesday as ...

The Nikkei Stock Average closed sharply lower on worries over policies under Japan's incoming Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba including the possibility of higher taxes. The Nikkei closed 4.8% lower at ...

Shigeru Ishiba was elected as the new prime minister of Japan on Friday. The country’s governing political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, voted for the former minister of defense to lead the ...

Japan's speedy, spotless Shinkansen bullet trains turn 60 Her white-gloved, waistcoated uniform impeccable, 22-year-old Hazuki Okuno boards a bullet train replica to rehearse the strict protocols ...

A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...

The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan for all but four of the past 69 years, leading some to ask whether its ...

Stocks dropped after Japan’s governing party chose Shigeru Ishiba, a critic of the country’s longstanding ultralow interest ...

No one was arguably more surprised by Shigeru Ishiba being named Japan’s prime minister than the head of the nation’s central ...