Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics will cut several hundred of jobs in 2025 due to sluggish demand for a wide range of its chips, Nikkei reported on Wednesday. The company informed employees of its plans to eliminate less than 5% of its roughly 21,

By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato issued a fresh warning against speculative yen selling on Tuesday, as the Japanese currency approached the key 160 per dollar level that prompted yen-buying interventions half a year ago.

Ambassador Suzuki, who was previously Japanese ambassador to India and Bhutan, became the new UK ambassador late last year. In a separate video posted on X, he said he was looking forward to travelling around the UK, including "enjoying many different fish and chips at many different pubs throughout the country".

A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.

Large Japanese firms are likely to increase wages by about 5% on average in 2025, the same as last year, the chair of a major business lobby said on Tuesday while pledging efforts to spread the wage growth momentum to smaller firms.

Japan’s biggest automakers pledged cooperation in tech-focused areas to survive in the rapidly evolving global industry, just as two of its largest car brands begin negotiating a deal that would effectively split the country’s industry in two.

Two elderly men died after choking on mochi on the first three days of the New Year in Japan. This sticky, sweet traditional delicacy turns fatal almost every year. But why?

Japanese policymakers are increasingly anxious that the country's birth rate is nearing the point of no return.

Japan's Defense Minister Nakatani Gen has agreed with his Indonesian counterpart to step up bilateral cooperation in the field of maritime security.

Japan’s SBI Holdings Inc. agreed to take a stake of more than 70% in Solaris SE as part of a new fundraising round for the German fintech that will slash the struggling company’s valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The company that famously declared it would be the last automaker in the world to field an EV-only fleet has just commissioned a lithium-ion battery plant in Japan.