Number of merchants soared fourfold to hit an all-time high before sharply dropping amid economic hardships and the pandemic

Imports rose by 43.8% compared with the same period a year ago, beating economists’ forecasts of 40% and totalling $72.9 billion

Some families with just one provider might be ineligible for the handout despite earning less than dual-income households

A high-ranking official at the financial regulator recently quit to move to Bithumb, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges

Tomoko Yoshino described a barrage of efforts to derail her promotion to the presidency of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation

The factories would be Nissan's first battery recycling facility built outside of Japan, the report added, without specifying where in Europe the factory would be built

Merck announcement follows world's largest contract chip maker TSMC saying it will build a new chip factory in Kaohsiung

World's biggest carmaker said on Tuesday it would invest 4 trillion yen ($35 billion) to build 30 battery electric vehicles by 2030 as it looks to tap the growing market of zero emission vehicles

South Korea is planning to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

Big firms expect conditions to worsen ahead as high fuel prices and a weak yen push up import costs

Rising cost pressures, coupled with a weak yen, adds to pain for the world's third-largest economy as it emerges from the pandemic

Japanese conglomerate has proposed an extraordinary general meeting in the January-March quarter to gauge shareholder support