With an extremely moderate rate of inheritance taxation, that too imposed on only the top 1% of the population, the country ...

Younger Japanese are turning their backs on grind culture. The result? Shorter workweeks, higher wages, and hope for an end ...

Two elderly men in Japan choked to death on mochi rice cakes as part of a New Year’s tradition that authorities have issued ...

Two men in Tokyo, Japan died after choking on mochi around New Years, and now officials are warning others to take care when ...

The world’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, died the night of Dec. 29. She died from natural causes and lived to be 116 years ...

Choking on mochi is so common that authorities offer tips every year on how to help someone who has the food lodged in their ...

It’s often said that the safest place to sit in a plane is at the back — and the only survivors of the recent Azerbaijan ...

Japanese policymakers are increasingly anxious that the country's birth rate is nearing the point of no return.

The annual inflation rate in Japan climbed to 2.9% in November 2024 from 2.3% in the prior month, marking the highest reading since October 2023. The core inflation rate rose to a 3-month high of ...

TOKYO – The yen weakened past the key level of 155 versus the US dollar on Dec 19 after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept interest rates steady. Japan’s currency slid as much as 0.4 per cent ...

In 2019, two people including a schoolgirl were stabbed to death and more than a dozen wounded in Japan's Kawasaki in a rampage by an attacker who targeted children waiting for a bus.