Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his government on Wednesday to set aside around 3.5 trillion yen ($26 billion) in the annual budget for child care, Economy Minister Shigeyuki ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is not discriminatory, insisting that constitutional freedom of marriage only envisions heterosexual unions, a ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday instructed his Cabinet ministers to compile a fresh economic package by the end of October, deploying "all possible tools" to mitigate the pain of inflation and ...

Japan is no longer in deflation but policymakers need to ensure prices do not slide back into contraction, economy minister Yoshitaka Shindo said on Friday, suggesting authorities are still concerned ...

Japanese women are missing out on around ¥111 trillion ($761 billion) in pay for a range of household tasks they do for free, an amount that’s roughly equivalent to a fifth of the country’s ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core machinery orders fell more than expected in July, as manufacturers in the world's third-largest economy balk at new investments in the face of sluggish global growth ...

(Reuters) -Japan's Sony Group Corp said on Friday a merger of its Indian unit with Zee Entertainment Enterprises, which had ...

THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said Philippine exports have the potential to expand significantly, with the country in a position to supply up to $107 billion worth of products that Japan ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --The Japanese Defense Ministry on Thursday requested its largest-ever defense budget following record defense spending last year in response to threats from China, North Korea and ...