Tokyo

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) began experiments to study the feasibility of issuing its own digital currency

A Renesas-owned chip plant in northeast Japan was hit by fire earlier this month

The partnership could breathe life into Nintendo’s stalled mobile ambitions

The move comes as the Japanese company aims to expand hardware that combines software

Japanese supercomputer simulations showed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking coronavirus

Smart home assistants such as Amazon's Alexa have found success worldwide

Infection cluster presents new challenges as country tries to overcome third wave of pandemic

Early-stage talks between Apple and Hyundai Motor Group over autonomous electric cars also recently collapsed

Further eroding confidence in the organisers’ ability to pull off the event during a coronavirus pandemic

Yoshiro Mori sparked uproar in Japan and abroad last week when he said that women speak too much in meetings