Nippon Life Insurance Co., one of Japan’s largest institutional investors, said that less than a third of domestic companies ...

If sold after 1 year from purchase date, long term capital gain tax will be applicable. Current tax rate is 12.5%, if your total long term capital gain exceeds 1.25 lakh. Any cess/surcharge is not ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election will likely be decided in a runoff, an Asahi Shimbun survey shows ...

The successor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will likely be selected on Oct 1, when an extraordinary Diet session is expected to be convened, sources familiar with the plan said Friday. The ruling ...

Japan's Toyota Motor has slashed its electric vehicle production plans for 2026 by a third, the Nikkei business daily reported, becoming the latest automaker to roll back electric car plans as EV ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s ruling party executive Shinjiro Koizumi said on Friday that he would immediately order the compilation of a stimulus package if he became the prime minister. “I’ll aim to ...

30-minute sleep every day for 12 years: Japanese man plans to ‘double’ life, shares secret to keep awake all day A Japanese man named Daisuke Hori has drastically reduced his sleep to just 30 ...

Lawrence Covian, 53, and his wife moved to Japan from the US in 2017. They bought an abandoned house, or akiya, in the countryside for 5 million Japanese yen, or about $35,000. He says his mental ...

The Japanese government on Friday shelved its plans to give money and encourage more women to relocate to rural areas upon marriage, after a chorus of criticism online that the move is discriminatory ...

Secrets of the Blue Zones on Netflix, you were probably left with some questions. The first episode of the docu-series ...

TOKYO—Japan is planning a multibillion-dollar network of small satellites to monitor ships and military sites, its latest response to a barrage of pressure from China that includes a recent ...