Armageddon was released worldwide in 1998. But since 2007, every year without fail, there has been a new "Armageddon" movie in Japan. What the hell is going on?
Asian shares got off to a positive start on Thursday after data showed Japan’s economy accelerated in the first three months of the year, in contrast to an enduring recession in the euro zone which was …
Japan’s top three banks forecast weaker annual earnings as aggressive monetary easing squeezes them out of a profitable government bond trade and forces them to rely more on bread-and-butter lending where …
Japan’s “foot is on the monetary accelerator,” says Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, and this is precisely what the rest of the world’s central banks have wanted to see for years.
Stylist Hiro from Osaka salon, Trick Store, says the hairdo, called ‘Ripe Tomatoes’, is his masterpiece. The look involves dying the hair bright red and then colouring sections green to resemble a tomato stalk.
Japan’s household spending surged in March at the fastest pace in nine years in a sign that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bold efforts to end two decades of stagnation are lifting consumer confidence and …
Japan’s industrial production is expected to have risen for a fourth consecutive month in March albeit at a modest pace, a Reuters survey showed, in a sign that factory output is recovering slowly as exports …
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: An activist has succeeded in filming the barbaric slaughter using ‘spinal spikes’ – and the footage is now set to ignite international outrage.
Japan won approval from participating countries to join talks on a U.S.-led Asia Pacific free trade agreement, central to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plans to open the economy to more competition and revive …
KYOTO (Reuters) – The world’s oldest living person, Japan’s Jiroemon Kimura, celebrated his 116th birthday on Friday with congratulations from around the world and from Japan’s prime minister. Kimura was crowned the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records last December after the death of 115-year-old Dina Manfredini of Iowa in the United States. “I […]