His widow and eldest daughter launched the suit, claiming the man's suicide was due to depression caused by overwork and harassment

Shares surge as much as 8.8% on news that Investment funds and companies are expected to be among the potential bidders with negotiations on price to begin this month

Remark underscores how a weak yen has become a tricky political issue for Japan, which has historically focused on preventing a strong currency from hurting the country's export sector

MPs in Japan adopted a resolution on Tuesday on the "serious human rights situation" in China, and called for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government to take steps to relieve the situation

Factory output shrank for the first time in three months in December as a decline in machinery production outweighed a small rise in autos, casting a cloud over the economic recovery.

Kyoto is struggling to offset billions of dollars in debt racked up through big-budget infrastructure projects with persistently low tax receipts and millions in lost tourism revenue

Production has begun at a new plant in Huntsville, Alabama, which was built with Toyota Motor at a cost of roughly $2.3 billion

The two centres are expected to provide more than 45 megawatts of power capacity to serve cloud service providers and other clients

SK Hynix, whose clients include Apple, reported 4.2 trillion won in October-December profit, its highest quarterly profit since 2018

JV is devoted to the development and production of biosimilars, compounds close in structure to a biologic, which is made from proteins

The plaintiffs, now aged between 17 and 27, were living in the Fukushima region when a huge earthquake in 2011 triggered a tsunami

The project would receive assistance from the US Energy Department and will use Japan's experience of operating the Monju reactor