For more than half a century, Japan’s corporate giants have held annual negotiations with labor unions to decide pay increases for the year ahead. Never have those talks meant so much to

Visitors to Japan climbed to nearly 1.5 million in January, the national tourism agency said on Wednesday, showing an accelerating recovery in tourism after the government scrapped COVID-19 curbs in

Increasing the value of people. This is one of the most essential things a country and a company can do to increase its value, while maintaining its economic strength in

Japanese power utilities are stepping up efforts to cut thermal coal import costs by switching to lower quality grades and widening import sources, company officials said, as Tokyo looks to

Core consumer prices in Japan’s capital, a leading indicator of nationwide trends, rose 4.3% in January from a year earlier, marking the fastest annual gain in nearly 42 years and

Asian-Pacific markets generally rose on Wednesday, despite the Bank of Japan’s announcement of no changes to its yield curve control policy. The Nikkei 225 in Japan saw the biggest increase,

Japan and Germany are coordinating their first top-level intergovernmental talks to be held in Japan in March, according to sources. The two countries intend to strengthen bilateral cooperation to realize

Japanese retail sales rose for a ninth straight month in November, data showed on Tuesday, as the lifting of Covid-19 border controls and the government’s domestic travel subsidy helped consumer