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Toyota executives have said there would be no way to avoid a negative impact in the event of a no-deal Brexit

Toyota's annual net profit drops by a quarter

Business / 08 May

Japanese markets close with losses as it reopens after a break of 10 days

Japan's markets close with losses after 10 day break

Business / 07 May

Japan's new Emperor Naruhito makes an address, alongside his wife Empress Masako, after the accession to the throne at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo

Japan's new Emperor Naruhito ascends the throne

Emperor Akihito has abdicated in favour of his son

Inside the mysterious world of Japanese royalty

Japanese Emperor Akihito at an abdication ritual in a sanctuary inside royal palace grounds

Akihito thanks public, prays for peace at abdication

Japanese Emperor Akihito, 85, is stepping down this week

Extra abdication holidays pose dilemma for Japanese

Business / 29 Apr

Carlos Ghosn has posted the $4.5m bail set by a Tokyo court today.

Ghosn wins bail in Japan but banned from seeing wife

Business / 25 Apr

The 65-year-old strenuously denies all allegations against him

Ghosn hit with fresh charge in Japan, files for bail

Business / 22 Apr

Ryusuke Sekiya was born in October weighing 258g

World's smallest baby boy set to go home in Japan

12 colourful child-sized dolls have been placed at desks in the local school - which has no 'real' students

Scarecrows outnumber people in Japan village

Business / 17 Apr

Carlos Ghosn has high cholesterol and, as a result of treatment, suffers from chronic kidney failure and rhabdomyolysis, his defence team have said

Ghosn was arrested illegally, defence document says

Business / 11 Apr

Journalists look on as lawyers for former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn play a video message recorded by Ghosn before his most recent rearrest

Ghosn accuses Nissan executives of 'backstabbing' plot

Business / 09 Apr

Nissan shareholders formally severed Carlos Ghosn's ties with the Japanese automaker he rescued from near-bankruptcy two decades ago

Nissan shareholders sever last ties with ousted Ghosn

Business / 08 Apr

Japanese authorities arrested Carlos Ghosn than a month after he was dramatically freed on bail after over 100 days in detention

Ex-Nissan chief Ghosn rearrested in Tokyo

Business / 04 Apr

Carlos Ghosn has experienced a dramatic fall from grace that shook the global auto industry

Ghosn to 'tell the truth' ahead of possible new case

Business / 03 Apr

Carlos Ghosn was arrested in Tokyo in November after Nissan told prosecutors its own internal investigation uncovered evidence of wrongdoing.

Ghosn's lawyers ask his trial be separate from Kelly's

Business / 02 Apr

The Tankan report - a quarterly survey of 10,000 companies - stood at 12 in April, a steep fall from 19 in the previous quarter

Japan business confidence drops in April - Tankan

Business / 01 Apr

Japan's government has downgrades its assessment of the economy for the first time in three years

Japan downgrades economic view as trade war bites

Business / 20 Mar

Kane Tanaka was born on 2 January 1903

Japanese woman recognised as world's oldest person

Japan, the world's third-biggest economy grew 0.5% in the fourth quarter

Japan's fourth quarter growth revised up to 0.5%

Business / 08 Mar

Carlos Ghosn, the former titan of the global auto industry was released from the Tokyo Detention House today

Ex-Nissan chair Ghosn leaves jail on bail of $9m

Business / 06 Mar

Carlos Ghosn faces charges of aggravated breach of trust and under-reporting his compensation at Nissan for nearly a decade

Japanese court grants bail for ex-Nissan chairman Ghosn

Business / 05 Mar

Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn was arrested in November over alleged financial misconduct

Carlos Ghosn's new legal team applies for bail

Business / 28 Feb

A photo sent from the spacecraft on 24 January

Japan probe Hayabusa2 touches down on distant asteroid

Science and Technology / 22 Feb

Nissan has said it will axe production at its Sunderland plant

Brexit accelerating Japanese exodus from UK - analysts

Business / 19 Feb

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