Flexible and folding formats framed the future of smartphones this week as manufacturers focused on new forms in an effort to jolt the market out of uniformity and re-invigorate sales.

Flexible and folding formats framed the future of smartphones this week as manufacturers focused on new forms in an effort to jolt the market out of uniformity and re-invigorate sales.

Starbucks on Thursday will open the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo, a four-story tribute to premium coffee quality, innovation and human connection. This will be the fifth Roastery globally, reaffirming the company's 23-year commitment to Japan.

In a world faced with the conundrum of mountains of waste and obesity for some and dire shortages and malnutrition for others the future of food is a main dish on today's global menu.

The top three U.S. carriers have announced bids for new slots at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport as part of a push to increase daily nonstop flights to the Japanese capital ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games and beyond.

Japan’s top steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal aims to boost crude steel output to nearly 11 million tons a quarter in the year from April 1, after system troubles cut production and its profit outlook this year, a senior executive said.

Inconvenient things offer many rewards. That’s the message of Hiroshi Kawakami, a doctor of engineering, who preaches the benefits of inconvenience. His book gives a variety of examples that illustrate his theory.

A robot modeled after Kannon Bodhisattva and designed to explain the teachings of Buddha in plain terms was unveiled to the media at Kodaiji Temple in the city of Kyoto on Saturday.

Huawei Technologies unveiled a $2,600 folding smartphone on Sunday which it said was primed for next generation 5G mobile connections, even as the United States campaigns to bar the Chinese company from such networks over security concerns.

The continuous decline in oil prices that has led to a lower contribution to national revenue should become a wake-up call for the government to immediately kick off fiscal reform that would speed up the use of renewable energy, experts in a recent discussion said.

Sales at convenience stores in Japan rose 0.8 percent in January from a year earlier for the third consecutive monthly increase, supported by solid food sales, an industry body said Wednesday.

Business investment in Japan has been a rare bright spot in the world's third-largest economy but that may now be fading amid anxiety over an upcoming sales tax hike and global trade frictions, a Reuters monthly corporate survey showed.