Academics favouring lower interest rates could challenge governor Kazuo Ueda’s efforts to normalise policy, analysts say ...

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The revelation that 315 MPs were asked to pick items from a gift catalogue evokes a slush-fund scandal that engulfed the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was under pressure Wednesday after it emerged she gave congratulatory gift catalogues ...

With the clock ticking, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Feb. 24 called for cooperation from opposition parties to secure ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held phone talks Tuesday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, just ahead of Merz's ...

China imposed export restrictions on dozens of Japanese firms on Tuesday that it said were involved in building up Tokyo's ...

A wobbly yen was pinned near a two-week low on Wednesday after a report that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had told the ...

Sanae Takaichi offered catalogue items to more than 300 lawmakers as election gratitude, insisting no government money was spent.

Déjà vu abounds in Tokyo. Markets are celebrating a Japanese prime minister dusting off the same-old-same-old economic policies as if something new and exciting is afoot.