Japan’s Parliament passed a bill Wednesday legalizing medical products derived from cannabis. The news comes some three weeks ...

TOKYO, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Japan's industry ministry has approved a plan by the country's top power generator JERA to hold a surplus of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the winter as a strategic ...

The Asahi and Mainichi newspapers reported earlier on Sunday that Nishimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) policy chief Koichi Hagiuda are ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's cabinet approved Friday an extra budget of 13.20 trillion yen ($87 billion) for the financial year that ends next March to fund a new economic package designed to mitigate ...

Japan's lower house on Friday approved a 13.20 trillion yen ($88 billion) supplementary budget for the current business year to next ... Japan's lower house approves 13.2 tril. yen FY 2023 extra ...

The State Department approved a possible sale of Tomahawk weapon systems to the government of Japan, paving the way for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to notify the U.S. Congress of the ...

An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but one expert said it "may not last very long" if volcanic activity stops.

Tons of dead sardines and mackerel wash up on a beach in Japan, leaving experts pondering the cause. The move comes after eight service members died in a crash off the coast of Japan last week.

Third quarter GDP contracted 2.1% from a year ago, after growing 4.8% in the second quarter, compared to expectations for a 0.6% decline in a Reuters poll. Quarter-on-quarter, GDP contracted 0.5% ...

In history the way to repay such a big debt (2 nd in the world after Venezuela) has usually been to inflate it away. No matter what governments do, from Japan to Jordan, from the US to Uzbekistan, ...