Korea and Japan have signed a fresh currency swap deal worth US$10 billion, the Ministry of Economy and Finance said last week. The resumption comes after an eight-year hiatus as relations chilled.A …
Alan Kohler: How Japan escaped neoliberalism and lived happily ever after
Japan’s main interest rate was minus 0.1 per cent before COVID-19, stayed there throughout the pandemic and is still minus 0.1 per cent.
CM meets business executives in Singapore
Gandhinagar: Wrapping up a 5-day tour of Japan, chief minister Bhupendra Patel, accompanied by a high-level delegation, arrived in Singapore on Friday.
Skybound Grows Animation Slate with New Japan-Based Studio
The spinoff office’s first order of business will be a live-action adaptation of Skybound’s 2020 graphic novel Heart Attack.
In Japan one restaurant prides itself on its rudeness
Renowned for dependable hospitality and ritualized etiquette, Japan now has one restaurant where the service is dependably, defiantly atrocious. At the Lazy House in Nagoya, the dining experience is …
I’m Black and my wife is Japanese. Here’s why raising my biracial kids in Japan is better than in the US.
An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. An curved arrow pointing right. As biracial Japanese stars such as Rui Hachimura and Naomi Osaka shine on the world stage, being Black and …
BOJ’s Noguchi: Japan yet to achieve wage-driven rise in inflation
Japan has yet to achieve price gains driven by higher wages with the recent rise in inflation driven by cost-push factors, Bank of Japan board member Asahi Noguchi said on Saturday, suggesting it was premature to retreat from ultra-loose monetary policy.
7 crew members remain missing in US Osprey crash that killed 1: Japan Coast Guard
Dive searches were conducted in areas identified by side-scan sonar, both in the morning and afternoon, yet no new information has surfaced after the aircraft crashed.
Strong earthquake off Philippines triggers tsunami alerts across Japan
An earthquake with a preliminary 6.9-magnitude struck off the southern coast of the Philippines on Saturday, triggering a wave of tsunami warnings across Japan and Asia.
7 crew members remain missing after US Osprey crash that killed 1: Japan Coast Guard
The search for the seven crew members missing after a U.S. military Osprey crashed off the shore of Yakushima Island in southern Japan has yielded no new clues, the Japanese Coast Guard said Saturday.