Foreign investors sold 745.6 billion yen ($4.6 billion) more in Japanese stocks than they bought in the first week of March after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.

Oil prices rose about 8% on Thursday as Iran stepped up attacks on oil and transport facilities across the Middle East, and ...

The SoftBank-backed's company stock opened at $19, compared with the $16 offer price. PayPay and an investment fund controlled by the SoftBank Group sold about 55 million American depositary shares ...

TOKYO -- Japanese semiconductor trading house Kaga Electronics is building a circuit board assembly plant in Singapore, ...

SEOUL -- South Korea has passed a bill to invest $350 billion in strategic industries in the U.S. including shipbuilding, semiconductors and energy, as war in the Middle East raises concerns for ...

The yen is approaching the key psychological threshold of 160 per dollar, but market participants are largely unconcerned about a currency intervention by the Japanese government.

Iran will fight on and keep the Strait of Hormuz shut, new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday in a statement read out on state television, the first remarks attributed to him since he ...

Japan is set to start distributing oil reserves from the private sector as early as Monday, with national stocks expected to follow between late March and early April, using negotiated ...

TOKYO -- Japanese biotech startup Orizuru Therapeutics will start clinical trials as soon as fiscal 2027 for a diabetes treatment using induced pluripotent (iPS) stem cells that could reduce insulin ...

Taiwan will import more U.S. liquefied natural gas starting in June, looking to diversify its sources following Iran's de ...

Eli Lilly's Seishin plant in the Japanese city of Kobe. The new investment will help the company meet demand in Japan through 2029. (Eli Lilly Japan) ...