Shigeru Miyamoto named first video game-related recipient of Japan’s Order of Culture

Japanese inflation breaks 2% for the first time this year

The September reading puts pressure on the Bank of Japan to raise rates by the end of the year.

Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts

Japan's highest peak is often overlooked as being an active volcano. But with the risk of eruption ever-present, disaste…

Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami dies at 74

Murakami's works, which explored sex, violence, and youth culture, were translated globally.