The number of foreigners who entered Japan last year plummeted by 91.8 percent from a year earlier to 353,000, the lowest since 1966, because of stricter border controls imposed against the novel ...

NHK World's Okubo Satoshi analyzes the plunge. Okubo also highlights the impact of speculative buyers. He says, "They are said to have actively bought Japanese stocks when the yen was weak and ...

Japan’s ruling coalition has lost its majority in a punishing set of results from Sunday’s general election, throwing the country into the kind of political instability not seen for decades.