TOKYO -- Japanese companies have raised wages by an average of 5.49% this year, little changed from 2024, as the pace of increases in manufacturing slows while other sectors catch up, a Nikkei survey ...

For the first time, tuition will be free at all high schools, both private and public, regardless of household income, as ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Resonac Holdings will quit Chinese and Southeast Asian production of graphite electrodes for steelmakers, the company said Thursday, scaling back in a bid to improve margins that have ...

The U.K. government promised to make the UK the best country in the world to do business. Last week, our economy received two ...

In fiscal 2024, net purchases by life and non-life insurers, once major investors, fell to the lowest level since records began in fiscal 2004. Many also believe that overseas investors have paused ...

WASHINGTON -- Toyota Motor will build the all-new bZ Woodland electric vehicle at an assembly plant operated by Subaru, ...

DALIAN, China -- Nearly half of European companies doing business in China import products subject to Beijing's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, according to a recent survey by the European Union ...

BEIJING -- China has approved plans for building 10 nuclear reactors for 200 billion yuan ($27.7 billion), putting the ...

GUANGZHOU -- China's top auto battery maker, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), plans to build thousands of stations that can replace an electric-vehicle battery with a fresh one in ...

In April, Japan received new export ship orders totaling over 620,000 gross tonnes, the Japan Ship Exporters' Association reported Thursday, marking a 32% plunge in volume from a year earlier.

NEW YORK -- Developing a domestic anode materials supply chain for electric-vehicle battery production in the U.S. is the ...

PARIS -- French defense giant Thales has signed a contract with the Singapore Navy to supply an artificial intelligence-powered mine detection system, looking to help bolster defense of the Singapore ...