Modelling has predicted a “megaquake” could kill almost 300,000 people and wipe $2.8 trillion from Japan’s economy, according to a doomsday announcement from its government.

Japan’s figure, measured in U.S. dollars, dropped by 0.8 percent from the previous year to $33,849 (5.3 million yen), the Cabinet Office said Dec. 23. For the first time since comparable data ...

The definition of "hikikomori" according to criteria used by the Japanese Cabinet Office survey, as reported in the press, differs from the diagnostic criteria for hikikomori proposed in the field of ...

Japan's economy expanded an annualized real 2.2 percent in the October-December quarter, compared with initially reported growth of 2 ...

TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet has plummeted to 26 percent after the gift ...

A Japanese panel of experts issued guidance to greater Tokyo residents on Friday in the event Mount Fuji erupts, telling them ...

The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet plunged to 27.6 percent, the lowest since he took ...

Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet Approval Hits Record Low ... the worst since Ishiba took the office last October, according to the March 15-16 poll by the Asahi. Other polls done by the Yomiuri ...

Taiwan named a former head of the Japanese defense forces as an adviser, according to officials in the archipelago’s ...