Authorities in Japan say one person is dead and two others are injured after a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train station in Nagano.

In a speech to business leaders, Naoki Tamura said that the central bank should raise rates to 1% or higher in the fiscal ...

A speech by the board member is likely to further fuel market speculation that more rate hikes are in the pipeline.

The Bank of Japan should raise its policy interest rate, currently at 0.5 percent, to at least around 1 percent in the latter ...

“I am the one who stabbed three people at the station, and I will stab women and children in Nagano Prefecture by January 30.

A dog and its owner ventured out for a morning walk in heavy snow in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture on February 5, as a winter storm hit parts of the country’s north.Footage filmed by X user ...

After a random knife assault at a bus stop in front of JR Nagano station on January 22 left one person dead and two injured, Nikkan Gendai (Jan 25) raised the issue of how incidents of this nature ...

Snowfall reached record levels in eastern Hokkaido while blanketing other parts of the Japanese archipelago on Feb. 4, and more snow is forecast for wide areas through Feb. 6.

Weather officials say a low pressure system and moist air caused record snowfall in Obihiro City in Hokkaido, northern Japan, ...

Seiko Epson is pursuing loftier goals: to become both “carbon negative,” absorbing more of the greenhouse gas CO2 than it ...

We visit a Hakata ori textile manufacturer with over 160 years of history and explore the kimono sash designs created by their youngest worker, who is in her third year with the company. In another ...

VAIO Corporation (Headquarters: Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture, President & CEO: Masaki Yamano, hereinafter referred to as ...