Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has remained silent on her “earnest wish” to eliminate the consumption tax on food items in the ...

Asia shares traded mostly higher on Wednesday despite a retreat on Wall Street on selling of technology stocks, while gold ...

This year, U.S. President Donald Trump has strengthened his “America First” principle and rule by force through a military ...

The Bank of Japan has begun selling the exchange-traded funds it acquired in massive quantities as part of its large-scale ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. A Japanese white‑eye bird chirps in an ume plum grove in Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, in March 2025. (Asahi Shimbun ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi should not count on the Bank of Japan’s help in taming sharp bond yield rises given the huge cost of intervention, including the significant risk of igniting unwelcome ...

The Ukraine-born grappler who has taken the sumo world by storm is now in deep training for a historic run at the highest prize in ⁠Japan’s national sport.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is on track to significantly gain more than the 233 seats needed for a majority on its ...

A “Diamond Fuji” dazzled Tokyo Skytree visitors on Feb. 3, with a crowd multiple rows deep packing into the observation deck's west-facing side to witness the setting sun align perfectly with the ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up a wide range of topics, including culture, arts and social trends and developments. Written by veteran Asahi Shimbun writers, the column ...

Mount Fuji Dream Bridge, located in a quiet residential area here, started attracting hordes of non-Japanese after photos showing the bridge like a flight of stairs to the summit went viral on social ...

A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the popular code editing platform Notepad++ to deliver a custom backdoor and other malware to targeted users, ...