Facing escalating public grievances over soaring rice prices and with a crucial national election looming this summer, Prime ...

The Japanese government on Friday approved a plan to enhance the disaster resilience of the country's infrastructure over the next five years, with the project expected to cost more than 20 trillion ...

Germany, Europe's largest economy, also announced a significant spending bill in March 2025, pledging $565 billion to an ...

Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street following a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market. The S&P 500 index rose 1% in early trading Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

President Trump has accused Japan of keeping rates, and thereby the yen (USDJPY), artificially low for a long time. Ironically, Japan had hiked rates in January and looked set to gradually normalize ...

A narrowing U.S.-Japan interest rate gap, rather than any effort by President Donald Trump to weaken the dollar, will likely ...

The US Treasury Department has told the Bank of Japan to keep hiking interest rates, saying it’s the only way to stop the yen ...

A Japanese court has ruled former executives at the utility managing the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...

The US Treasury called on the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates to strengthen the yen, stepping much deeper into policy ...