Japanese government bonds tumbled, sending benchmark yields to near 17-year highs, as traders priced in increased political risks and a hazy outlook for the central bank's policy normalisation path.

Iwao Hakamada, who was acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 murder case in Shizuoka Prefecture, plans to file a damages suit against

ABC News' Britt Clennett reports on the impacts of the parliamentary election and tariff negotiations with the U.S.

As the United States turns inward under President Donald Trump’s second term, Japan quietly steps up to defend democracy, free trade and regional stability on the global stage.

Global stock-market investors are cheering a U.S.-Japan trade deal, but Japanese government bonds are under pressure, pushing up yields. That's worth keeping an eye on for its implications beyond Japan.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Japan will form a joint venture to develop a liquefied natural gas project in Alaska though a Japanese government official said he was not aware of such plans.

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Japan’s Topix share index closed within a whisker of a record high and government bonds slumped after a long-awaited trade deal with the US spurred an explosive day for Tokyo’s financial markets. Reports that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba planned to resign added to the drama,

Japan's shaky minority government is poised for another setback in an upper house vote on Sunday, an outcome that could jolt investor confidence in the world's fourth-largest economy and complicate tariff talks with the United States.