Rakuten on Tuesday logged its fifteenth consecutive quarter in the red as losses at its mobile service network unit outweighed a record performance from its financial unit.
Sony Group said it expects operating income of ¥1.28 trillion ($8.2 billion) in the year to March, missing analyst expectations for both profit and sales as PlayStation 5 hardware sales wane.
Nippon Ishin no Kai’s hopes of becoming Japan’s largest opposition party after the next general election took a hit following last month’s losses in two by-elections and a mayoral campaign in its home base of Osaka.
Vladimir Putin will visit China for talks with leader Xi Jinping on Thursday and Friday, the Kremlin said Tuesday, in the Russian president’s first trip abroad since his re-election in mid-March.
An area of Jerusalem's national military cemetery, where soldiers killed in Gaza are buried, was on Monday filled with mourners and emotion as Israel marked a painful Memorial Day.
Even people with slightly high blood pressure are twice as prone to cerebral and cardiac vascular diseases, including strokes and heart failures, as those with normal blood pressure, a Japanese study has found.
A total of 21,716 people in Japan died alone at home from January through March, nearly 80% of whom were 65 or older, the National Police Agency said Monday as it released an official tally on solitary deaths for the first time.
Hamas leader Yehia Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in the Gaza Strip that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Japan has lodged a formal protest after a South Korean opposition party leader made a trip to disputed islets, stoking a long-standing territorial spat ahead of an expected three-way summit with China.
A male employee of Otsuka Foods has filed a ¥2.2 million lawsuit against the company for developing depression due to unfair treatment after making a whistleblower report over the company’s alleged wrongdoing.
Celebrities who have remained silent on the crisis in Gaza are feeling the wrath of angry fans wielding the "digital guillotine" to block them on social media and streaming platforms.
Incoming Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong picked Trade Minister Gan Kim Yong as his deputy, keeping the Cabinet of outgoing leader Lee Hsien Loong largely intact.
Nomura Holdings has unveiled a target to almost double its pretax profit by the end of the decade, as its Chief Executive Officer Kentaro Okuda seeks to build on last year’s earnings revival.
When the world’s top gas traders met in late April at a canal-side hotel on the outskirts of Amsterdam, the atmosphere was business-as-usual: coffee, croissants and wrangling over deals for the upcoming winter. Then came news of a leak at Europe’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, located above the Arctic circle in Norway.
China and South Korea's foreign ministers have held their first talks in Beijing in more than six years, as both countries look to boost sagging ties and pave the way for a trilateral summit with Japan in Seoul slated for later this month.
The U.S. and Taiwan navies conducted joint drills in the Pacific in April that, officially, did not take place, four people briefed on the matter said, as the two militaries boost cooperation amid rising Chinese military threats.
President Emmanuel Macron said he would be open to seeing a major French bank being taken over by a European Union rival in order to spur the deeper financial integration he sees as critical for the bloc’s future prosperity.
The government and ruling parties are considering a labor law revision to strengthen measures against "customer harassment," or problematic behavior by customers toward store and other workers, it was learned Monday.
Japan has been engaged in the steady — some would say “relentless” — modernization of its national security policies and processes for over a decade.
A subsidiary of Japanese glass-maker AGC has lost a lawsuit filed by a female clerical worker seeking damages for indirect gender discrimination.
Japan’s legacy automakers are jumping on the big-tech bandwagon as they race to revive waning interest among Chinese consumers.
A lost prince of Japan is being given new life.
The Yokohama Museum of Art is not one of Kenzo Tange’s best designs. Compared to the striking curves of the architect’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium or the lightness of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the YMA is squat and charmless.
Ahead of the fifth anniversary on May 24 of the implementation of the Ainu policy promotion law, calls are growing for the introduction of penalties for discriminatory remarks against the Ainu indigenous people, while the government is cautious about penalties.
Less than 40% of employees in Japan know about the country's whistleblower protection system, which came into effect about 18 years ago, a Consumer Affairs Agency survey has found.