The Latest Breaking News from Tokyo

New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks were mixed on Monday as markets digested the takeover of the embattled First Republic Bank, while Tokyo stocks closed higher ahead of the Federal Reserve's key policy decision this week.

Tokyo (AFP) - Japanese figure skater Daisuke Takahashi, who became the first Asian man to win a world title in 2010, announced his competitive retirement with ice dance partner Kana Muramoto on Monday.

Tokyo (AFP) - Chinese billionaire Jack Ma on Monday took up a visiting professor position at a Japanese university, another new academic role for the founder of tech giant Alibaba.

Shares have advanced in Tokyo and Sydney while most Asian markets were closed for May 1 holidays

Tokyo (AFP) - The abortion pill will become available in Japan for the first time after the health ministry approved the drug used to terminate early-stage pregnancy.

With Lufthansa announcing that it will start flight service between Bengaluru and Munich from November 3, two of the three international routes from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) which were disrupted due to COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 are back on track.

The ambassador has been seen variously as giving Australia a ‘shake-up’ and ‘kicking own-goals’ during his Canberra posting

Japan’s trade ministry says it has begun procedures to restore preferential trade status for South Korea, days after Seoul took a similar step for Tokyo and requested reciprocity, and more than three years after the countries downgraded each other during a bitter historical dispute

Tokyo (AFP) - The Bank of Japan announced a review of its longstanding monetary easing measures on Friday, but said it would maintain them for the time being in the first policy decision under new governor Kazuo Ueda.

Tokyo (AFP) - Japan should sanction Myanmar as it has done for Russia over its Ukraine invasion, a United Nations expert said Thursday, slamming the junta's "barbarism and oppression".

The Jingu Gaien is a rare green space in central Tokyo