Her support rate is at a much higher level than the inaugural polls for her predecessors Ishiba and Kishida. Read more at ...

(Oct 23): Newly appointed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi started off her term with high approval ratings, in a show ...

Foreigners snapped up Japanese stocks worth a net 752.6 billion yen ($4.99 billion) during the week, adding to 1.87 trillion ...

Approval ratings were found to be especially high among younger generations and those in the Osaka and Nagoya regions.

The U.S. dollar index, which measures the currency against the yen, sterling, euro and three other peers, edged up 0.05% to 98.979 as of 0050 GMT. The dollar added 0.17% to 152.21 yen, and earlier ...