What had been a quiet week in markets was electrified by a U.S.-Japan trade deal overnight, catapulting Japan's Nikkei stock index up more than 3% to its best level in a year, prodding Japanese ...

(Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Risk assets in Asia are set to open positively on Friday after a show of fortitude on Wall Street saw U.S. stocks end a choppy session in the ...

Shohei Ohtani has been a superstar in Japan for more than a decade, but one day earlier this year, a Tokyo resident named Tatsuo Shinke noticed something different. Shinke, the CEO of Mint, a leading ...

Japan has for the first time approved over-the-counter sales of an emergency contraceptive pill, its manufacturer says, allowing women in the country to take the medication without prescription. ASKA ...

At least 33 people were injured after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Monday. The quake was followed by a series of ...

Every morning in Tokyo, during rush hour, thousands of Japanese people head to the train stations with almost choreographed rigor. And among the crowd, one can still spot, in some stations, a ...

Japan has given regulatory approval for an over-the-counter contraceptive pill, its manufacturer said on Monday, the first time the socially conservative country has greenlighted so-called ...