TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's December inflation-adjusted real ... The positive figure is attributed to a 6.8% jump in special payments, mainly on companies' wintertime bonuses, the ministry said.

TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - The number of senior citizens living alone in Japan will likely jump 47% by 2050, a government-affiliated research institute said on Friday, underscoring the heavy ...

Japan saw its biggest year-on-year jump in foreign workers since records began, government data showed Friday, as the country seeks to address labour shortages exacerbated by its ageing population.

Japanese shares opened Thursday like U.S. stocks ended Wednesday: surging higher on President Trump's authorization of a 90-day pause on many tariffs to most trading partners. The Nikkei 225 shot ...

TOKYO -- The number of foreigners working in Japan surged by 250,000 in a year to 2.3 million in October, the largest year-on-year increase since records began in 2008, as efforts by companies to ...

Uranium sector-specific exchange traded funds surged Wednesday after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that Japan will restart its nuclear power plants and outlined plans for ...

Hong Kong stocks led the way higher in Asian trading on Thursday as markets returned from a midweek holiday, while elsewhere in Asia the Japanese yen remained in focus with the currency at ...

That marks the biggest jump since records began in 2008 ... when the number of foreign workers stood at 788,000. Japan has the world's second-oldest population after Monaco, according to the ...