The Finance Ministry said Tuesday it will issue commemorative ¥1,000 coins marking the 100th anniversary of the 1926 start of the Showa Era. The coins will be priced at ¥34,800 apiece. The obverse ...

As part of Japan’s drive to embrace electronic payments, Mizuho and about 60 other banks have launched a new digital wallet called J-Coin Pay. But contrary to what you may have read about it, it doesn ...

During routine excavations ahead of factory construction in Maebashi, a city in Japan's Gunma Prefecture roughly 100 kilometres northwest of Tokyo, archaeologists stumbled upon one of the most ...