Major convenience store operator FamilyMart Co. has conventionally been franchised to teams of two, often husband and wife, ...

The government in Beijing has reciprocated in part because it wants foreign investment to help revive its economy, which ...

Japan withdrew from the IWC in 2019 and resumed commercial whaling in its exclusive economic zone ... Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture; Minami-Boso in Chiba Prefecture; and Taiji in Wakayama ...

The government in Beijing has reciprocated in part because it wants foreign investment to help revive its economy ... said Taizo Miyagi, an expert on Japanese diplomacy at Chuo University in ...

Governor of Miyagi Prefecture, Yoshihiro Murai, voiced his gratitude and appreciation for the State of Kuwait's aid granted ...

SENDAI--As a come-on, Miyagi Prefecture hopes to be able to promise Indonesian and other Muslim workers they will be buried appropriately if they die in Japan. The prefectural government reached ...

Rookies of the Rakuten Eagles baseball club lay flowers at Minamisanriku's former disaster countermeasure center in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 18, 2025. (Kyodo) MINAMISANRIKU ...

Mr. Wu is a law professor at Columbia and a contributing Opinion writer. He served on the National Economic Council as a special assistant to the president for competition and tech policy from ...

Analysts say they see signs of malaise in China’s domestic economy, but those problems were offset mainly by robust exports and a $1 trillion trade surplus. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from ...

Sounds pretty good. Even that universal economic thermometer we see every day—the price of gas—has been flashing good news, falling in many markets below $3 a gallon. You could imagine that ...