Plummeting birth rates and ageing population leave closed-off country 'no choice' but to admit foreigners, but tensions are ...

Cancer ranks as one of the top causes of death worldwide. The National Cancer Institute reported nearly 20 million new cancer ...

Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s board is poised to keep the benchmark rate at 0.5% at the conclusion of the two-day gathering on Thursday, ...

Futures on Wall Street have ticked lower on Sunday evening after reporting another week of gains, in what appears to be a ...

Japanese and Australian stocks opened higher, while US equity-index futures dropped 0.5% in early trading Monday. Gold ...

At the end of day two of the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2025, five teams now share the top spot on the ...

Japan's top currency diplomat on Monday denied a media report that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had told his ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and ...

Big-spending Saudi clubs including Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr are dominating the Asian Champions League Elite, accounting ...

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

California has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy in the world, with a nominal GDP of $4.1 trillion, according to data from the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Bureau of ...