For decades, shareholder activists in Japan struggled to make headway, often facing deeply entrenched resistance from companies as well as cultural and legal obstacles. Now, as Japan’s stock market hits successive record highs and the number of buyouts continues to soar, they have to reckon with a new and pervasive problem: their recent success.

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will host a summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday to ensure stable and friendly ties as her country faces growing tension with Beijing

A maritime search marks Japan’s first attempt to source critical minerals domestically, as part of the next phase of efforts to diversify supply away from China.

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a close with no sign of improvements

Tokyo-based Minerva Growth Partners has secured around 7 billion yen ($44 million) at the first close for a second fund that aims to invest in late-stage startups, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Japan’s finance minister has said US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent shares Tokyo’s concerns about the yen’s recent weakness, fuelling speculation that Japanese authorities might intervene to support the currency.

Netflix's The Boyfriend is a groundbreaking queer dating show set in Japan, a country that is still lagging behind on LGBTQ+ rights.

They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history they’re still working through.