US-based online room broker Airbnb teams up with the FamilyMart convenience store chain.

Japan Airlines says it will launch a low-cost airline aiming for a bigger chunk of the budget-airfare market.

A firm in western Japan is using a new method for flash-freezing oysters to deliver the freshest frozen shellfish ever.

A maker of traditional washi craft paper is reinventing itself.

Major convenience store 7-Eleven announces a new online service to begin in July.

Japan's banks may soon be closing on weekdays amid a lack of customers in the countryside.

Pharmaceutical giant Takeda will acquire Europe's Shire for about 62-billion dollars.

A new luxury tourist train will connect Tokyo to the Izu Peninsula, an area of resorts and hot springs southwest of the ...

Prices of favorite foods including cheese and natto fermented beans are going up.

People across Japan dress down as the annual "Cool Biz" energy-saving campaign gets underway.