This Mainichi Shimbun reporter received this message from my credit card company in November. Upon checking, I found a 1.78 million-yen (roughly $11,530) transaction I had no recollection of in my ...

The government will distribute up to 1.5 million yen ($13,950) to individual artists and entertainment organizers to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, sources said. The measure ...

The Japanese yen fell to fresh 34-year lows against the U.S. dollar after the Bank of Japan decided to keep interest rates on hold. The currency briefly spiked to 154.97 per dollar at one point ...

Unauthorized use of credit cards, in the meantime, is also sharply on the rise. Damage incurred from similar scams totaled a record 43.6 billion yen in 2022. Economy ministry figures show that ...