Sliding values of stocks held by SoftBank's Vision Fund suggest more bad news when CEO Masayoshi Son reports first-quarter earnings next week

A surprise visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan has brought back the spotlight on Taiwanese...

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida has reached out to labour unions and companies as part of his push for wage increases to help households manage higher prices.

Japanese car giant said its operating profit plunged by 42% in the first quarter, after auto production was hit by Covid lockdowns and the global shortage of computer chips

The world's top carmaker could report a double-digit drop in first-quarter profit this week as supply-chain woes forced it to slash production targets three times last quarter.

Hino shares plunged almost 10% on Tuesday, after company probe reveals it found emissions data was falsified for 13 more years than already known

The Japanese currency was boosted by bets US interest rates are close to a peak after the world's biggest economy contracted in the June quarter

Denso's operating earnings of 63.6 billion yen ($473 million) for the three months to June 30 fell short of an average estimate of 81 billion yen

Retail sales rose in June - the fourth successive month of gains -  supporting the view that rising consumption and easing China lockdowns helped the economy return to growth

South Korea allows limited short-selling of locally listed stocks, but retail investors have complained that the practice mainly benefits big institutional and foreign investors

Its operating profit rose to 14.1 trillion won ($10.8 billion) for the quarter ended June 30 from 12.57 trillion won a year earlier, higher than the company's own estimate of 14 trillion won

Indonesia's chief economic minister Airlangga Hartarto met with Toyota vice-chairman Shigeru Hayakawa on Tuesday in Tokyo, the Jakarta ministry said