Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday he will step down from his post after weeks of mounting pressure for his resignation. “I made a difficult decision to step down,” Ishiba said during a press briefing, in comments translatedRead More →
Residential and commercial properties near the Shibuya district of Tokyo on May 4, 2023. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s core inflation rate cooled to 3.1% in July, coming down from 3.3% the month before as rice inflation continued to ease. The figure — which strips outRead More →
Dukai Photographer | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were poised to open lower Wednesday, tracking Wall Street declines overnight, with investors awaiting a slew of economic data from the region. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was set to open lower, with the futures contract in Chicago at 43,385 while its counterpart in OsakaRead More →
Shein’s UK sales jump 32% in 2024, fueling profit gains on Hong Kong IPO horizon Shein’s U.K. arm generated £2.05 billion ($2.77 billion) in sales in 2024, up 32.3% from 2023, according to a filing released on Friday. The online fast-fashion retailer’s pre-tax profit rose to £38.25 million in 2024 from £24.43Read More →
Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa pass away within a day of each other after separate bouts on the same card. Two Japanese boxers have died from brain injuries sustained in separate bouts on the same card at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. Shigetoshi Kotari, 28, collapsed shortly after completing a 12-round drawRead More →
A fan of Japanese manga reads a comic in his home in Kamisu in Japan’s Ibaraki Prefecture. Philip Fong | Afp | Getty Images Visitor interest in Japan plunged in June, amid a prophecy in a manga that predicted a “disaster” would strike Japan in July 2025. The prediction wasRead More →
Joint Sea-2025 exercises begin in waters near Russian port of Vladivostok and will last for three days, China’s Defence Ministry says. China and Russia have begun joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan as they seek to reinforce their partnership and counterbalance what they see as a United States-ledRead More →
Officials say the workers were conducting an emergency inspection of sewage pipes when the accident took place. Four workers have died in Japan after falling into a manhole near Tokyo as they inspected sewage pipes, according to public broadcaster NHK, quoting police. NHK reported on Sunday that the incident inRead More →
BREAKINGBREAKING, The magnitude 8.7 quake strikes 136km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia’s far east, according to US Geological Survey. Tsunami alerts have been issued in multiple countries after a powerful magnitude 8.7 earthquake off the Russian coast. Waves of up to four metres high were recorded in Russia’s far-eastern KamchatkaRead More →
President Donald Trump discussing a U.S.-Japan trade agreement with a Japanese delegation and top White House aides in the Oval Office, July 22, 2025. Source: @Scavino47 via X | The White House President Donald Trump’s art of the deal seemed to play out in real time Tuesday. Trump on TuesdayRead More →
