Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing will increase pay for full-time headquarters and sales staff by 11 per cent in a sign that corporate Japan is loosening its three-decade-long resistance to rising wages.

As someone who regularly watches concerts in South Korea and Japan, CNA Lifestyle’s Hazeeq Sukri lists some of the most ...

Asking students to clean their classrooms might seem unusual to some, but in Japan it is an unquestioned part of school life ...

The company had suffered poor performance after receiving criticism online due to the public's resistance to the idea of ...

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TOKYO -- Ryohin Keikaku, the owner of lifestyle brand retailer Muji, plans to accelerate expansion in Japan and abroad, with ...

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TOKUSHIMA—Insects are no longer on the menu here after an edible cricket supplier ceased operations and declared bankruptcy.

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

Japan ranked 29th for labor productivity among the 38 member countries of the OECD, according a survey by the Japan Productivity Center released Monday. Japan's per-hour productivity in 2023 came ...

Parliament on Tuesday enacted the government's ¥13.9 trillion ($90 billion) supplementary budget for fiscal 2024 to finance the first comprehensive economic policy package under Prime Minister ...

29, 2021, from an observation deck in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — A quarterly survey by Japan’s central ...