The yen held on to solid gains on Wednesday, bolstered by a rally in Japan's stock market and bets that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's landslide election victory puts her in a strong position to ...

TOKYO - The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Japan PM may keep Cabinet members, as parliament set to convene next week TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister ...

Researchers at an A.I. company are trying to understand the mind inside their invention—examining its neurons, running it ...

The Nikkei 225 index has been moving sideways for almost 2 years around 40,000, as you can see from the following chart. Thanks to the economic agenda that Sanae Takaichi and her party pushed in 2025, ...

Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory in a snap election, prompting optimism that her ...

Sanae Takaichi’s supermajority victory will speed up Japan’s assertive policies on defence and economic security. For Europe, ...

China has sought to punish Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for remarks she made about Taiwan, but that strategy has largely ...

According to the statement, Tokyo’s "brazen intention" to enshrine the Self-Defense Forces in the constitution is not an optimization of legislation, but an "undermining of the foundations of the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Honda reported Tuesday a 42% drop in profit for the nine months through December, compared to a year earlier, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs hurt the Japanese automaker’s ...

Global shares are mostly higher and Japan’s benchmark topped new highs after a historic election win for the nation’s first female prime minister ...

As the scale of her government's historic victory became clear on Sunday — capturing 352 of the 465 seats in the lower house — Takaichi said she would "work flat out to deliver" an agenda that ...

It was a risky gamble to call a snap election – her career was on the line. But now Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is basking in the ...