Shares in Asia fall on cautious sentiment for growth By Investing.com - May 12, 2016 6 Investing.com - Shares in Asia drifted lower on Thursday in cautious sentiment on economic growth prospects ...

Some experts argued that radical measures are needed. “There is global competition for foreign workers, and Japan mustn’t miss out,” one expert said.

A potential foreign acquisition of Japanese retail giant Seven & i would be “heavily related” to national security, Japan’s economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Wednesday. His public ...

Elsewhere are words written in a simplified Japanese syllabary (hiragana), and also in another syllabary (katakana), generally used for transliterating foreign terms; both were developed in the ...

TOKYO – More and more university students are teaching children with foreign roots the Japanese language, and working to create places for them to feel comfortable. Amid a shortage of teachers for ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, right, and new U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass shake hands ahead of their meeting in Tokyo on April 21, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese ...

According to the FDFA, meetings are planned with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, among others. Cassis will also meet with representatives of the Swiss ...

Japanese superlong government bonds drew a record foreign inflow last month as heightened risk aversion amid U.S. tariff policy burnished the securities’ allure as a haven. Global funds bought a ...

Tokyo, April 23 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government plans to send Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya to the funeral of Pope Francis, government sources said Wednesday. The head of the Catholic ...

More and more university students are teaching children with foreign roots the Japanese language, and working to create places for them to feel comfortable. Amid a shortage of teachers for Japanese as ...