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WASHINGTON -- If former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House, he could call on Japan to increase defense spending beyond the 2% of GDP Tokyo has already promised, said former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who served under Trump.
TOKYO -- A flood of inbound tourists visiting Japan looking to take advantage of the weak yen has caused hotel room prices to spike to rarely seen heights, according to the latest industry data.
The defining experience of Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s childhood left her with badly scraped knees and her classmates with broken bones.
TOKYO - A group of Japanese firms have agreed to raise wages by 5.24 per cent this year, the country's largest union group Rengo said on Thursday (April 4).
Hello from Tokyo. Joseph Schumpeter was one of the most famous economists of the 20th century. He is known for characterizing the core of capitalism as an evolutionary cycle of creative destruction, or innovation. His theory attracted many Japanese scholars, and Heita Kawakatsu, the professor turned governor of Shizuoka prefecture, was one of them. (Some people say that this is possibly because his own name, Heita -- which can also be read as Peta -- is similar to Schumpeter's.)
TOKYO -- The yen strengthened to the 150 range versus the dollar in Tokyo by midday on Friday, the Japanese currency's strongest point in about two weeks, as a "risk-off" mood carried over to Asian markets amid investor jitters about rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, an earthquake in Taiwan and elevated inflation in the U.S.
TOKYO (AP) — Crowds gathered Friday in Tokyo to enjoy Japan’s famed cherry blossoms, which are blooming later than expected in the capital because of cold weather.