The currency's softening could affect efforts to curb inflation. The consumer price index was up 38.1% on the year in March, for a 10th consecutive month-to-month decline in the rate of increase, in ...

TOKYO -- An investment company associated with activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami now owns more than 5% of Fuji Media Holdings, a Japanese broadcaster mired in a corporate governance disaster ...

"Military officials from the U.S. traveled to Shanghai, China to meet for working-level talks focused on decreasing the ...

However, abandoning the U.N. is not the solution. We must invest in strengthening and modernizing multilateral institutions, ...

Mitsubishi, which counts U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway among its investors, plans to repurchase up to ...

CNOOC, under the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC Group, had agreed in December to sell the interests to British chemical group Ineos.

The yen touched the mid-145 range against the dollar at one point Thursday, its strongest in six months, compared with around 150 before sweeping tariffs were announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON -- A day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the administration's strategy is to boost domestic factory production, ...

TOKYO -- As Southeast Asian countries scramble to find ways to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs, each country finds itself with few good options, while a shift away from ...

On Wednesday, Trump announced a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports, with some countries hit with even higher reciprocal duties. Vietnam was slapped with the highest rate among major Southeast Asian ...

(Reuters) -- The director-general of the World Trade Organization said new tariffs announced by the U.S. along with those introduced at the start of the year could lead to a contraction of around 1% ...

TOKYO -- Japanese rail stocks rose on Thursday against an overall drop in Tokyo shares, as investors flocked to issues that are insulated from the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal ...