Japan's hometown tax programme is highlighted this week, with a focus on the local specialities and products which are ...

At Muscle Girls Bar, in Tokyo’s entertainment district, Ibebukuro, customers pay to be slapped, carried and served drinks by ...

Square Enix will release new pixel sprite lights based on the original Famicom/NES release of Dragon Quest 3 in Japan in ...

Megahouse has opened pre-orders for a newly restocked batch of Fullmetal Alchemist Ling Yao Greed figure, which will return in June 2025.

Seven & i said in November it had received a buyout proposal from the founding family, as it weighs a rival offer from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard ...

The 2.85 million yen ($18,000) entry-model price tag will be the lowest for a compact electric car in Japan, below the 3.63 million yen BYD set in 2023 with its Dolphin ...

A Bloomberg story that the Bank of Japan might lift its inflation forecast due to rice and the yen had an impact, sending the dollar lower vs. the yen. The question is whether the central bank lifts ...

Bank of Japan officials are likely to discuss raising their inflation outlook at a policy meeting later this month, although ...

Traders are on alert for a rising risk of Japan intervening to support the yen, with a US jobs report later Friday looming as ...

A 608-pound bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about about 1.3 million U.S. dollars). Sushi ...

In early 2024, the World Health Organization predicted that by 2050 there will be more than 35 million new cancer cases ...

Explore why the USD/JPY exchange rate has done well in the past few weeks and whether the Bank of Japan will restart its rate ...