Japan is seeing a boom in gold investment amid heightening concerns over a global economic slowdown caused by U.S. President ...

The United States and China said Monday they have agreed to slash most of their recent new tariffs on each other's imports ...

The father of a 15-year-old student arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly woman who was found stabbed in a street in ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new pope at a conclave held in the wake of Pope Francis' passing, assuming the name ...

President Donald Trump set out on a three-nation visit to the Middle East on Monday, a trip he had originally intended to use ...

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Tuesday that he intends to continue talks on currency issues with U.S. Treasury ...

Struggling Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. plans to cut around 20,000 jobs globally, more than 10,000 above the reduction ...

The Japanese government will soon tell people the prices of rice in supermarkets in different parts of Japan. Now the ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly soared over 2 percent Tuesday morning, boosted by buying on an easing of trade tensions after ...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that a trade deal his country struck in Switzerland with China ...

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Japan's transport ministry on Monday issued a warning to the operator of Tokyo's Haneda airport terminal buildings over its ...