The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond on Thursday briefly hit 5.34 percent, the highest since 2002. Investors are selling ...

Three banks in northeastern Japan are moving toward integration talks. The discussions will involve Aomori Michinoku Bank, ...

NHK has learned that the government has wrapped up draft requirements for Japan's potential "secondary capital." The ...

The new president of electric parts maker Nidec has vowed to rebuild the company after a series of accounting and product ...

Former Japanese Defense Minister Onodera Itsunori has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. They ...

Russian forces have launched massive strikes against energy facilities in Kyiv. A US think tank released an analysis on ...

Multiple NATO sources say Russia has sent an informal letter to NATO, in which Moscow warned it is ready to use nuclear ...

China has put in place a revised national defense mobilization law that allows civilian resources to be used for military ...

Pakistan says it has launched airstrikes on camps and hideouts of extremist groups in neighboring Afghanistan, killing 22 ...

After 58 trendsetting years, the Seibu department store in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district has closed its doors for the ...

A group of lawyers in Japan has petitioned the government to hold talks with the United States and ask Washington to withdraw ...

The US news magazine TIME has included the mayor of Kyoto's Yawata City, Kawata Shoko, on its annual list of the world's 100 ...