Pandas have stood for friendship between China and Japan since 1972. But the last two are about to go, and a dispute over ...

Twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to China in late January, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in ...

Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to ...

Twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to China in late January, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in ...

The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to levels unseen in 30 years, taking another landmark step in ending ...

The Bank of Japan did the political version of jumping the shark on Friday: it hiked interest rates to a 30-year high of 0.75 ...

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Friday that Tokyo would take appropriate action to deal with any excessive ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, in ...

Coffee tasting menus full of elaborate preparations and black-tie baristas are all the rage in Tokyo and Kyoto.

A new estimate from the Japanese government has revealed that if an earthquake of magnitude 7 or higher occurs in Tokyo, ...

When the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea last met, in May 2024, observers viewed the meeting with a sense of relief. Japan and South Korea were emerging from one of the darkest periods in ...