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The updated estimate, based on a more optimistic economic growth scenario, still underscores the daunting challenge of restoring the countrys fiscal health.

A Japanese labor ministry advisory body is set to announce its recommendation for a revised minimum wage. The question is whether the nationwide average will hit 1,000 yen, or about 7 dollars, per hour for the first time.

OSAKA -- The case of an elementary school student who was abused with racially charged comments from classmates such as

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- Heavy rain pounded parts of Japan's southwestern region Monday, causing mudslides and river overflows and leaving at least five peo

Divisions open up over NATO’s Asian outreach ahead of leaders’ summit in Vilnius.

KYOTO -- A university professor living in Kyoto, who was born in Japan and whose parents are Japanese, was shocked when the Japanese government sudden

TOYAMA -- The district court here on July 5 ordered the Toyama Prefectural Government and the city of Namerikawa to pay about 83 million yen (roughly

Japan's tallest skyscraper, towering at a height of 330 meters, was completed at the heart of Tokyo, Mori Building Co said Monday, beating the previous title holder by 30 meters. The Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower building is a key feature of an area being redeveloped as Azabudai Hills to…

Japan won approval from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday for its plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant into the ocean, despite fierce resistance from Beijing and some local residents.