Japanese trading house Mitsubishi said on Thursday it would expand its salmon farming by acquiring additional businesses in Norway and Canada, as Japanese companies continue to grow in the food sector,

India's Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor will become the launch site for Japan's next-generation E10 Shinkansen bullet trains. The Indian Ministry of Railways announced on Monday that the E10 trains, the successor to Japan's current generation of E5 Shinkansen, would make their debut in both countries simultaneously.

The strain on households is real. Japan’s Engel coefficient, which measures food as a proportion of household spending, is at a 43-year high and inflation-adjusted wages fell for a fifth straight month in May. The most consequential policy battleground of the election — a cut to VAT — attests to real household pain.

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party ruling coalition may lose its majority in the upper house in an election on Sunday, which could heighten calls for the government to boost spending and cut tax.

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the country’s defense minister said Tuesday.

Japan has warned of escalating military threats from China in a new defense report. The report highlights China's growing military activity near Japan’s southwestern coasts and the Pacific as a major strategic challenge.

Japan’s opposition parties played down concerns over plans to cut taxes that have contributed to recent rises in bond yields ahead of Sunday’s upper house election.

Japan's government said its top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, held a 45-minute phone call with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on U.S. tariffs on Thursday.