Need a train station shelter in a hurry? You can now print that. In Arida, Japan, a Japanese architectural firm and 3D-printed house manufacturer partnered with JR-West, a railway network, to build ...

Japan’s economy shrank at a slower pace than anticipated in the third quarter of 2025, supported by resilient domestic consumption even as exports weakened under the weight of US tariffs and cooling ...

Blame warmer winters: When flowers don’t last as long, they die off as new ones bloom, leaving cherry trees looking ‘kind of ...

When Japanese carmakers launched their “less is more” approach from the 1960s (which would be integrated from the 1970s), it was not just a case of wanting cheap cars. It was a system where packaging ...

Japan’s industrial production increased by 0.5% month-over-month in May 2025, shifting from a 1.1% drop in the previous month but missing market consensus of a 3.5% growth, flash data showed. On an ...

TOKYO, July 18 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will warn of uncertainty over the impact of U.S. tariffs in a quarterly report due this month, but may offer a less gloomy view on the near-term hit to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan currently has no plan to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC) but must continue innovating its payment and settlement system in an increasingly cash-less society, a ...

Expectations of where inflation will be in the coming years, already declining, have taken a further dive as a result of the trade agreement between the U.S. and Japan. So-called break-even inflation ...

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TOKYO – Locked in an increasingly-tense territorial dispute with China, Japan announced this week it will boost defense spending for the first time in more than a decade. Coming from Japan’s ...