Trump Says U.S. and Japan Have Reached Initial Trade Agreement

The pact is expected to be limited in scope, but would give American farmers greater access to the Japanese market. Read more »

Elin McCoy: Should Japan go beyond Koshu?

Elin McCoy looks at Japan's wines and argues it could be the next global wine hot spot.... Read more »

Japan’s July household spending up for eighth straight month, but at slower pace

Japan's household spending rose for an eighth month in July, albeit at a slower-than-expected pace, offering a warning about consumption in an economy already struggling with weak external demand amid the bitter... Read more »

Japan should scrap nuclear reactors after Fukushima, says new environment minister

Shinjiro Koizumi says: ‘We will be doomed if we allow another accident to occur’ Read more »

New environment minister says Japan should stop using nuclear power

Japan's newly installed environment minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, wants the country to close down nuclear reactors to avoid a repeat of the Fukushima catastrophe in 2011. Read more »

Diplomatic row with South Korea starts to hurt Japan’s services account

Japan's surplus in spending by overseas travelers declined in July from a year earlier as the number of visitors from South Korea tumbled, a sign the souring bilateral relations are taking a... Read more »

Japan wins partial WTO victory in S Korea duties case

The World Trade Organization on Tuesday largely faulted South Korea in a final ruling over anti-dumping duties slapped on imports of industrial pneumatic valves imported from Japan. The WTO's Appellate Body mostly... Read more »

Japan regulator to launch new investigation into Fukushima nuclear disaster

Japan's nuclear regulator said in Wednesday it would launch a new investigation into the Fukushima disaster, to look into how radiation leaked from damaged reactor containment vessels and other factors. Read more »

Yahoo Japan to buy online fashion retailer Zozo for ¥400 bil

Yahoo Japan Corp. announced on Thursday a tender offer worth an estimated 400 billion yen ($3.7 billion) for Zozo Inc., a Japanese online retailer started by a celebrity tycoon. Zozo Chief Executive... Read more »

Japan may have to dump radioactive water into the sea, minister says

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, the environment... Read more »