Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people ... Bang rhythmically on a pipe or wall, or send a text for help instead of shouting.

But stones unearthed here apparently constitute part of the oldest castle keep ever built in Japan. The stones form ... A detailed image of the stone wall, including the base of the keep, is ...

On 11 March 2011, communities along the north-eastern seaboard of Japan's biggest island, Honshu, were swept from their ...

OTSU--A 30-meter-long stone wall and ... unifying Japan. The castle was often dubbed “phantom castle” because there are no visible remnants on the grounds and no pictorial maps.

George Nishiyama oversees The Wall Street Journal’s Japanese website, WSJ Japan. He joined The Journal’s Tokyo bureau in 2011 as an editor in charge of economic policy, and covered Abenomics ...

TOKYO -- The benchmark index Nikkei Stock Average rose more than 3% on Thursday, as stocks tracked Wall Street's tech-led gains and as the yen weakened against the dollar. The Nikkei average ...

Shutterstock As the light dimmed over Sōya Bay, the town itself seemed practically vacant. In this part of Japan, there was ...

Asian stocks were mostly higher on Monday, supported by key rate decisions last week from the U.S. Federal Reserve, Japan, China and Britain. U.S. futures and oil prices were higher. Chinese stocks ...

Japan's July exports rose 10.3% year on year and imports rose 16.6% in the same period, compared to expectations of a 11.4% rise for exports and a 14.9% growth for imports. It was the last month ...

As James Macintosh of the Wall Street Journal points out ... This is the case even though Japan’s stock market has relatively small exposure to artificial intelligence, which has been the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed its latest winning month ... In Asia, the levers were pulling in opposite directions. Japan’s Nikkei 225 slumped 4.8% on worries the country’s incoming ...