Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Friday, following sharp overnight losses on Wall Street, as concerns over U.S. President ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese household spending fell for the first time in three months in February, government data showed on ...

Japan’s households cut back on spending as inflation remained elevated, in a sign of vulnerability in a key pocket of the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday he was disappointed that his country did not win an exemption from ...

Morgan Stanley is raising about 100 billion yen ($684 million) for a Japan-focused real estate fund, two people familiar with ...

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BRUSSELS (Kyodo) -- The foreign ministers of Japan, the United States and South Korea on Thursday voiced "serious concerns" ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says his government is making last ditch efforts to get U.S. President Donald Trump to ...

A measure of Japanese bank shares plunged more than 7%, the most since August, as worries about the impact of ...

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