PLANS have been submitted to turn a former city centre stationery shop into a Korean-Japanese restaurant. Kokoro UK Limited ...

The number of foreign residents in Japan is booming. The Internal Affairs Ministry says the figure reached 2.49 million in 2018. But a new survey finds that only one in five Japanese people have ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Inflation-adjusted wages in Japan fell for the first time in three months in August, as price rises outpaced a sharp increase in workers' pay. The labor ministry says the average real wage fell 0. ...

Steep declines in the stock prices of Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. pushed their implied upside to the highest level in at least three quarters.

Here's what you need to know Planning a trip to Japan? Here's what you need to know How to plan the ultimate trip to Japan How to plan the ultimate trip to Japan ...

Japanese stocks on Monday suffered their biggest daily loss since 1987 as fears about a US economic slowdown sent shock waves ...

Germany almost certainly overtook Japan as boasting the world's third-largest economy in 2023, according to newly released German economic data. Japan’s gross domestic product, as measured by ...

Japan has - for the first time - issued a warning about an increased risk of a "major earthquake" striking in the near future. The advisory was issued on Thursday night local time, telling people ...